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cruentus being placed at one end of the house, and those most like 
Heritieri at the other. Its bearing upon the question of the origin of 
the fiorists’ Cineraria will be seen from what I have said. We do not 
always obtain the same thing from a given cross. When, for instance, I 
made Begonia crosses, some years ago, I found that I did not obtain a 
passable B. weltoniensis from the cross by which Colonel T. Clarke 
obtained it. Cineraria hybrids show, I think, that hybridising induces 
variation quite apart from the modifying influence of one parent upon 
the other, or commingling of their features. Variation surely might so 
happen in a state of nature. 
P.S.—The prominence of a postscript I am glad to give to information, 
which is important from a purely scientific, as well as from the Cineraria 
point of view, given me by Mr. James at the Hybrid Conference. Of 
his hybrid, crwentus x Heritiert, he says that the plants most like crwentus 
bear seed comparatively freely, while those most like Heritieri are com- 
paratively sterile. It gives a physiological reason why, if the Cineraria 
was originally obtained by crossing with Heritieri, there should now be 
little evidence of that species. That the ringed arrangement of colour 
came from Heritieri I am still as certain, because it is an important 
feature keenly preserved by the florist. 
