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. FINE DOWNY PLANT 



A fine flowny plant of ihc fourth generation, jjliotograplied earlv in September, and flowering 

 freely. This belonged to the family of VL-51S, of which seven lines were grown in F4. 

 One of these gave 51 plants resembling this one, with fine downy ])ods; and the six others 

 gave 157 plants like this and 57 smooth black j)lants such as shown in Fig. 17. There were 

 thus in the field 208 plants, all closely resembling the one photographed above. By Novem- 

 ber, all these plants were bare of leaves and covered with dry pods. They were a week or 

 two earlier than the Velvet bean. The hairs on shoots and leaves are white; the leaves are 

 distinctly wrinkled. Scale in feet. (Fig. 16.) 



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