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The Pedigree Families. 



the eight individuals which appeared in that year and 

 fertihzed them with their own pollen, (see tahle on page 

 224). From the seeds thus obtained I raised a consider- 

 able number of plants 

 in 1896; the seeds were 

 sown in pans and all 

 the seedlings picked out 

 onto a bed. W^ith the 

 exception of a few that 

 were to serve as seed- 

 parents, they were all 

 pulled up while they 

 were flowering ( from 

 August to October) i. 

 e., not before the time 

 when the rubrinerms- 

 character was fully de- 

 veloped in the stalk, 

 calyx, flower and young 

 fruit. There were some 

 young stems and ro- 

 settes left over after 

 this process, but these 

 also proved to be ex- 

 amples of riihrinervis. 

 The number of plants 

 that flowered amounted 

 to about 1000. Among 

 these was a single La- 



Fig. 43. Oenothera riihrinervis. Top 

 of the plant, showing flowers, buds, 

 and unripe fruits. 



iiiarckiana which had 

 presumably grown from a seed left in the bed from last 

 year's sowing. Otherwise all the plants were rubri- 

 nervis; except that some of them also exhibited the 



