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Root-Cuttings and Chimaeras II 



been largely overcome, and we have a large series which will flower in 

 due course. Plants identical with the parent have been raised from 

 Lady Doreen Long (1); Queen Alexandra (1); Kingston Beauty (several); 

 and from Touchstone, a scented-leaved Pelargonium (12). 



Pelargonium (Zonal). 



Though no root-cutting has yet been raised from it the properties of 

 a salmon, fringed zonal raised by Messrs Jarman and by them called 

 "Golden Flame" (PL XIV, fig. 1) should be considered here. The leaves 

 of this variety are shiny, stiff and crumpled or buckled. Its flowers have 

 laciniated petals and are devoid of functional female organs, the pistil 

 being reduced and the ovary aborted. The anthers are normal, containing 

 abundant and good pollen. The plant is therefore a male. Upon these 

 plants not rarely a shoot arises which has leaves flat, with a dull matt 

 surface like that of most leaves of zonals. On such shoots the flowers 

 are normal hermaphrodites, and the petals are entire. Occasionally leaves 

 otherwise of the characteristically crumpled kind have areas, small or 

 large, of the sport variety. 



Miss Cayley has supplied the following notes on the differences in 

 structure between the two kinds of leaves: 



Macroscopic Characteristics of Leaves. 



