I. Inheritance in Shidei/ Popjjy 



TABLE VI. 

 Parental Inheritance. Third Method. 



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The Highgate poppies were a starveling crop with rarely more than one 

 capsule to the plant. Hence no determination of homotyposis was possible. The 

 most like crops were Chelsea I and Enfield II and the mean homotyposis of 

 these two is put in brackets with a query. We have already seen that the 

 Bookham homotyposis result (p. 67, ftn.) is doubtful, and probably this result 

 ought also to be excluded. Omitting these two results we find the mean in good 

 aoreement with that obtained froin the first method, i.e. •3-i22. 



We may safely conclude that parental relationship for the stigmatie bands in 

 Shirley poppies is expressed by a correlation lying between •35 and '4, but that its 

 value is considerably influenced by the conditions of the individual crop, or even 

 by differential treatment of parts of it. 



(8) Hereditanj Influence of the Capside and of the Plant. One of the questions 

 proposed to those assisting in the present investigatiou was the problem of the 

 relative individuality of the plant and its fruit. Was the resemblance of the 

 offspring to the special capsule from which its seed had been extracted greater 

 than to the average capsule of the parent plant ? The data for answering this 

 question were to be found in the crops grown from Seed (ß). Only three such 

 crops were sown in 1900 and the foUowing table contains the results. 



TABLE VIT. 



Capsule Parentage. 



* No crop was grown at Crookham from Seed (o). 



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