524 The Inconstancy of Fasciatcd Races. 
In the fasciated parts these flowers are broadened and 
usually more or less divided, the fruit sometimes form- 
ing a flat structure (Fig. 120 e), with or without one or 
two lateral fruits in the same flower (Fig. 120 c and d). 
Often these latter are pentamerous. Lastly the whole 
fruit can be split into two or three nearly equal parts 
Fig. 121 Geranium molle fasciatum. Curve representing 
the number of sections of the fruit in the individual 
flowers of the sixth generation, June 1895 ; a, number of 
normal flowers far above 100; number of flowers with 6 
to 23 stigmas, 120. 
(Fig 120 b). In these various types of splitting there 
seems to be a tendency to the production of whorls of five, 
and the lateral flowers nearly always present this number. 
My race began with a specimen found wild in 1888 
and in the third and fourth generations produced 25 to 
