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tending over seven years, in their relation to other known 
facts we find that we can distinguish the following races : 
1. Hcspcris matronalis alba, the constant commercial 
variety. 
2a. A whitish, pale lilac, seldom or never striped 
sort (Wi-Ws), which can reproduce the violet color by 
sectorial, bud- and seed-variation ; violet seed-variation 
about 2 r /c ; lilac offspring about 6 C ' ( . 
2b. A lilac, often striped or spotted, race which gives 
rise to an inconstant but mostly considerable number of 
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whitish and violet offspring. Its color merges contin- 
uously into that of No. 2a. but is sharply separated from 
No. 3. 
3. A violet variety which has arisen from 2a and 2b 
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and is presumably inconstant, on the analogy of Antirrhi- 
num majus. 
4. Hcspcris matronalis, the original, constant, violet 
species. 
The analogy with the corresponding races of An- 
tirrhinum majus seems to me to be obvious and can be 
expressed as follows : 
1. The systematic variety which is perfectly con- 
f -1 v 
stant (H. in. alba, A. maj. Intcnm). 
2. The eversporting variety with lilac or striped 
flowers (H. m. lilacina, A. maj. lutcnm striatum). It 
can be split by selection in a plus and in a minus direction ; 
into a pale lilac, or finely striped race on the one hand, 
and on the other into the dark lilac and frequently striped 
dame's violet and the broadly striped snapdragon. 
3. The self-colored but inconstant atavistic type which 
has the color but not the constancy of the original species. 
4. The original violet, or red, perfectly constant spe- 
cies (Hcspcris matronalis. Antirrhinum majus). 
