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segregating plant differed from the rest even in 1921, and aroused the 
suspicion of being a bastard-plant between the two types. It showed 
the branching habit of no. 45, but the fruiting bractlets resembled the 
praecox-type, with the exception of a few, which showed a tendency 
to become leafy. Fig. 29 shows this plant. The offspring of the plant 
shows segregation with regard to branching habit, bractlets, leaf colour 
etc., and a few of the individuals have much resemblance to the parent 
plants. A full account of this segregation, however, must be postponed 
until the next generation has been grown. 
The Sound type of A. sarcophyllum was held to be a mere modifi- 
Fig. 29. Atriplex sarcophyllum. A Fı-plant from the cross between 
the east coast and the Sound types. 
cation in one of my former publications (Turesson, 1919 b), as a result 
of insufficient experience in regard to the behaviour in culture of the 
types of the eastern and western coast strips. The hereditary nature 
of the characteristics peculiar to the Sound type is now beyond all 
doubt. The forms belonging to this type grow abundantly on the 
marshy coast strip along the Sound. A form belonging to the group 
was described as long ago as 1838 by DREJER from near Copenhagen 
under the specific name A. longipes. The name has disappeared from 
modern handbooks, or else it has been discarded with the remark that 
it refers to abnormal plants of other species, the »abnormal» charac- 
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