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Table 14 



Observations of Meiosis in Auto-Polyploids 



I. (Plants only) Triploids 

 Hyacinthtis orientalis (x = 8) D., 1929 b ; Stone and Mather, 



Tulipa vars. 



1932. 



Lilium tigrtnum 

 Zea Mays 



{x = 12) Newton and D., 1929 ; D. and 

 Mather, 1932. 



{x = 12) Takenaka and Nagamatsu, 1930 ; 

 Mather, 1935. 



{x = 10) McCHntock, 1929. 

 Solanum Lycopersicum (x = 12) Lesley, 1929 ; Upcott, 1935. 

 Primula sinensis (x = 12) Dark, 1931. 



Allium spp. (x = 8) Levan, 1931, 1933 a, 1935 b. 



Hemerocallis fulva {a; = 11) Dark, 1932. 

 Oryza sativa (x = 12) Morinaga and Fukushima, 1935. 



A. Plants 



Solanum Lycopersicum {x 



Hyacinthus orientalis (x 



Primula sinensis {x 



Nicotiana suaveolens {x 



Dactylis glomerata (x 



Allium schoenoprasum (x 



Petunia (hort.) (x 



Primula malacoides {x 



2. Tetraploids 



12) j0rgensen, 1928 ; Lesley and 



Lesley, 1930 ; Upcott, 1935. 



8) D., 1929 b {4X — 2). 



12) D., 1931 a. 



16) Goodspeed and Avery, 1929 a. 



7) Miintzing, 1936. 



8) Levan, 1935 b. 

 7) Matsuda, 1935. 



9) Kattermann, 1935. 



B. Animals (tetraploid cells in diploid testes) — 



Schistocerca gregaria (a; = 11) White, 1933. 

 Drosophila pseiido- 



obscura (hybrid) {x = 5) 



Culex pipiens (x = 3) 



Chrysochraon dispar (a; = 9, 



Dobzhansky, 1934. 

 Moffett, 1936. 

 Klingstedt, unpub. 



