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B-9. The plant is recorded as being large, spreading with pur- 

 ple flowers, etc. "The seeds making the second largest group were 

 of good size and shape and uniformly of a dark purple color, 

 appearing almost black." Of the 32 plants grown 18 were like 

 the parent, dark purple; 7 white; 3 mottled purple like the blend 

 seeds but smaller; i indistinctly mottled upon a seal brown; i 

 motled dark brown; i mottled light brown, and i mottled 

 dark with a white back. Samples of these same types of seeds 

 are shown in Plate XX. under B-9-1, B-9-4, B-9-5, B-9-6, 

 B-9-10, B-9-25 and B-9-28, respectively, the size of each pile 

 showing the total output of the plant. 



B-iO'. The parent seeds were "seal brown with purple 

 blotches," from which the following results were obtained: 3 

 mottled purple ; 3 white ; 2 dark brown. 



B-ii. Failed. 



B-12. This was a medium-sized plant with red jflowers and 

 short, flat pods, which matured early seeds that were mottled 

 with dark brown upon a seal brown background. From this set 

 21 plants were grown with seeds as follows: 8 seal brown mot- 

 tled, resembling the parent, but variable; 4 dark brown (almost 

 black) ; 3 mottled dark brown; 2 light grey with brown "eye" ; 2 

 indistinctly mottled light grey ; i mottled grey, and i a clear light 

 blue. Representatives O'f all these types are given in the lower 

 row of Plate XX., arranged from left to right as follows \ 

 B-12-2, B-12-9, B-12-13, B-12-14, B-12-18, B-12-21. 



B-13. The parent seeds were "dark purple with white end" 

 and the following plants were obtained : 2 plants dark purple 

 (approaching black). 



From the Plate it is seen that there is great variation in the 

 number of seeds that each plant produced. The set from B-4 is 

 the most uniform in large output and kept up the record made by 

 the parent, while the offspring of B-9 are remarkably variable. 

 In shape no two' are alike in the set shown for B-4, the smallest 

 being B'-4-i and the largest B-4-11, but the contents'' are not 

 well shown in the picture because some, as B-4-21, are very 

 plump and the next pile to the left, B-4-11, has quite flat seeds. 

 The same sharp contrast in size and shape is brought out in 



