192 REPORT OF THE CONFERENCE ON GENETICS. 
This variety has been propagated by cuttings. Last year three fruits 
were borne on one plant, and two other plants bore respectively one fruit 
each. All the fruits were full of seeds. It cannot be doubted that these 
fruits were produced by the action of the pollen of the derivatives of 
P. alba x P. ‘Constance Elliot,’ resembling P. alba, grown alongside 
(see p. 193). 
In plant V. the leaves are 3-lobed, but deeply cordate at the base ; 
5-lobed leaves are of very exceptional occurrence. The lobes are broad 
and blunt, not narrow and pointed as in III. 
The flowers are white, and they cannot be distinguished in any way 
from those of I. 
In plant II. the majority of the leaves are 5-lobed. Perfect 3-lobed 
leaves occur in considerable numbers. 
The flowers (fig. 88) are as large as those of the others of the series 
above described, but they are “ blue.”’” The colour, as in the parent, is 
Fic. 38.—FLower or Seepiine II. or Passtrnora ‘ Constance Euior’ x P. ALBA. 
NATURAL SIZE. 
confined to the coronal rays. Compared with corresponding parts of the — 
parent, the petals and sepals are the same colour, but are somewhat 
smaller, and not of so good substance; the outer coronal rays are similar 
in colour and considerably longer, the longest being only a little shorter 
than the petals and sepals; the inner rays are very similar, but are a 
little longer and slightly deeper in colour; the stamens are similar, the 
pollen being equally inferior ; the styles and stigmas are the same size and 
identical in colour. ‘The section of the flower displays quite similar 
construction. Nectar is secreted copiously. 
