P. F. FYSON. 15 
The second column of figures refers to the number of the 
parent in table IV. 
The parents in lots 1 to 6 appear to have been pure neqglec- 
tums, for with the exception of one stray plant in line 1, all the 
offspring were neglectums. Those of lots 6 to 11 were hybrids 
and the proportion of herbacewms—30 out of 121—is exactly the 
expected Mendelian ratio of one-fourth. There are a few 
neglectums among the offspring of herbaceum parents (lots 12 
to 15), but four of them were in one bed, and the rest may 
perhaps safely be taken as accidental inclusions. We see there- 
fore that among plants of the fourth generation, as of the two 
preceding, there were two kinds of weg/ectums—pure and hybrid, 
the offspring of the latter showing the dominant and recessive 
characters in the proportion of 3 to 1. 
THE FLOWER. 
Most of the Indian varieties of cotton plants have yellow 
flowers, marked in the centre with red or purple, which in the 
evening fade to a terra-cotta colour. But two of the varieties 
with which I began these had comparatively small white flowers, 
marked also with purple, but fading to a pink colour. These 
were the white flowered Jari and Ban. Thirteen successfully 
crossed bolls were obtained between white and yellow flowered 
indigenous races thus :— 
‘Papue (Vl: 
| 
Seed Piant. Pollen Plant. Bolls. Yellow. | White. 
1 | Jowari = ... | Jari 2 19 
2 | sav ey. So eowalie es 1 11 
3 | Jowari Ae ... | dari 1 16 
4 | Northerns Dos = 4 58 
5 | Jari ae ... | Northerns 1 11 
6 | Jowari aa |) Bani 3 24 
7 | Bani A ... | sOWArL ..- 1 16 
a ne At ee I) ee se en 
Total 13 155 0 
The flowers all appeared when fresh to be of a full yellow 
colour and not intermediate in tint or size between those of the 
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