— 95 — 



portion of the right-handed and left-handed flowers of 20 

 plants, open on a certain day : — 



TABLE I. 



R = right-handed ; L = left-handed. 



Fourteen days later, the flowers of 23 plants — 3 addi- 

 tional to the above series, which now bore a new erop of 

 flowers — were counted, and found to be as follows : — 



TABLE II. 



{The numbers 1-20 do not correspond with those in Tahlel.) 



It is interesting to find that the numbers in Table II are 

 respectivelj al most exactly doublé those in Table I. 



In the above tables no details are given of the relative 

 numbers of right- and left-styled flowers in the several cymes. 

 In the following table this deficiency is made good, the 

 numbers of flowers on the separate inflorescences of 19plants 

 being set forth. The plants are not taken in the same order 

 as those either in Table I or II. The enumeration was made 

 (in the same group of plants) a month later than that for 

 Table n :— 



