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seven feet in height.* In other cases this increase in vigour was 
evident trom the first. On the whole, too, the plants bolled freely 
and bore well, though some of the third generation of lot No. 3 
were very poor. The smaller and neglectwm-leaved plants came 
into bearing first, and two were especially marked in this respect, 
bearing heavily while the majority were still only in flower. As 
their seeds were naked and had long and silky staple, it was 
hoped that they might prove the progenitors of a useful variety, 
but as explained above (p. 8) none of the seeds of that lot survived. 
Secondly, the plants were in some cases very variable, as 
is often observed with hybrids, Charles Darwin calling attention + 
to this in “animals and plants.” According to the pure 
Mendelian theory, while the individual unit characters may 
change places, and combine in every way that chance may direct, 
so that the plants as a whole appear variable, each unit character 
should appear in itself true. In the shape of the leaf I found 
considerable variation, the lobes of some  neglectums being 
very narrow, almost linear, and a few had wavy margins not 
unlike those of Assam cotton figured by Watt.{ These might 
be due to different combinations § of Allelomorphs, but since 
wavy margins do not occur in the normal leaves of either Jarv or 
Jowarz, and appeared less frequently in later generations, I am 
inclined to consider them as monstrosities due to variation 
induced by hybridisation and by change of climate and soil. There 
is a general tendency too, for plants to approximate in character 
with age : in those more than twelve months old it is very difficult 
often to specify the nature of the leaf, or of the branching, and 
to this must be put down the failure to determine the characters 
of the lots Nos. 10, 11 and 12 of Table III. See fig. 7 and 
compare with figs. 11 and 12. 
* My original Jari plants were small. Balls (8) notes a similar “ intensification ”’ of 
characters. 
+ Darwin, C. Variation in Animals and Plants under Domestication, 1868, ed, Vol, IT, 
pp. 264, 266, 267, 
t Watt ibid. (1) plate 18. Opp. p. 108. 
§ Bateson and Saunders, (11) Report to the Evolution Committee of the Royal Society, 
p. 144. 
