PLATE V. 
the long-styled blossoms will fertilize completely the stigmas of a short- 
styled plant, which then bears plenty of good seed, and vice versd. This 
is what I meant by reciprocal fertilization. He tells us also that some 
of the commoner species have not their styles of different length, but 
that, when plants are so formed, the two kinds, each of which is so 
essential to the welfare of the other, are to be raised from seed in 
nearly equal quantities. I regret that I was unable to re-examine Linum 
maritimum with this great fact before me, especially as Mr. Darwin 
in that same paper quotes Planchon (“ Hist. Physiolog. des Plantes 
@Europe.” 1841. Tom. i, p. 401) to the effect that this very plant, 
as well as L. Gallicum and Strictum, both of which are found at 
Mentone, is dimorphic. I can only state, as some guide for further 
and fuller investigation, that I have found but one specimen in which 
the styles were shorter than the stamens, though great numbers of 
specimens have passed through my hands. I notice also that plenty of 
capsules are formed and ripened. 
My figure was taken from plants brought from Ventimiglia in 
November, where it continues to blow until the first severe cold, and 
re-appears again about March. Grenier and Godron give Corsica, the 
Mediterranean coast, and, northwards, to Avignon, as its district; it 
was, moreover, found on the shores of Algiers and Tunis. (Desfontaines’ 
“ Flora Atlantica.”) 
