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the foals were not pure horses. Darwin elucidated this matter and 
laid down the principle that the entire system of the female is im- 
pregnated with the male element, and that the whole of the matter thus 
created is not consumed by the resulting offspring; hence there were 
marks of the Quagga upon the foals bred subsequently to a horse. 
By analogy it is easy to see that a plant’s system is influenced by a first 
crossing, and in a subsequent different cross may produce offspring bearing 
the impress of the earlier male parent. 
Objection may be raised that this theory cannot apply to a plant, 
whose structure is totally different from that of an animal, as the former 
loses by dehiscence and separation the entire generative organs needed to 
produce seed, whereas the latter does not; but who can prove that the 
Fic. 84.—O. CERVANTESII. Fic. 85.—O. LAtrEsseEt. 
(Orchid Review.) 
entire system of the plant is not affected or impregnated by the male 
element exactly in the same way as in the animal ? 
It is a fact that many natural hybrids do bear evidence of some points 
of more than two parent species in their habit, either floral or vegetative ; 
therefore I consider we have here a possible clue which we may investi- 
gate, and thus discover something. With this object in view, I have 
made totally different crosses upon the same plant, a list of some of which 
I append. 
triumphans July 1901 
Coradinei x } Harryanum July 1902 
crispum (blotched var.) November 1904 
Hallii March 1901 | 
luteo-purpureum Vuylstekeanum May 1903 f 
Harryanum July 1902 
nobile Veitchianum January 1904 J 
Pescatorei x { 
sceptrum x ‘ 
