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accompanied with a description of each lot. There was great 

 variation in many respects, certain plants being nearly barren 

 while others were prolific; no two had seeds alike in size, shape 

 and color. 



Plantings were made the present season from each of the 

 thirteen lots of seed, and, at harvest time, the following among 

 other notes were made : 



B-i. The parent seeds were "solid dark purple," from which 

 the following results, in terms of seeds only, were obtained : 7 

 black-seeded plants, 6 mottled dark, and i mottled brown. 



B-2. The parent seeds were "yellowish brown with fine indis- 

 tinct mottling," from which the following result was obtained : 

 I white-seeded plant. 



B-3. The parent seeds were "yellowish brown." From which 

 were obtained : 3 plants mottled dark, i mottled grey, i white, i 

 mixed (white, mottled purple). 



B-4. This plant was large with red flowers and the most pro- 

 lific of the set of thirteen grown in 1906. The seeds were borne 

 close in the pods and angled at their ends and had a "grey color 

 with fine bluish mottlings, becoming darker near the 'eye,' " re- 

 sembling neither parent. From this set 32 plants were grown, 

 giving in terms of seed characters the following tabular results : 

 10 grey mottled like parent, but no two plants were alike in this 

 respect; 10 solid light brown; 9 white; 2. mottled dark brown, 

 and I mottled ochre brown. Representatives of the types in this 

 set are given in the upper row of piles in Plate XX., arranged 

 from left to right as follows: B-4-1, B-4-2, B-4-11, B-4-21, 

 B-4-26. 



B-5. The parent seeds were "slightly mottled, with grey back- 

 ground." The following results were obtained: 2 plants with 

 mottled seed. 



B-6. The parent seeds "resembled blend type." The following 

 results were obtained : 5 plants all mottled dark. 



B-7. Failed. 



B-8. The parent seeds "were similar to blend (mottled 

 purple)," and yielded the present season: 4 plants with mottled 

 seeds. 



