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The Pedigree Families. 



The 1890 crop contained, 1)esides the two parent 

 types, three mutations, viz., one elliptica and two spathit- 

 lata which however did not flower and were not cultivated 

 further. 



Mention must here be made of a Lainarckiana in the 

 1889 crop, in some of the flowers of which the tips of 

 the sepals had become broad and the sepals themselves 



OENOTHERA LAMARCKIANA. 



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PEDIGREE OF THE SECOND LATA-FAMILY. 

 (The fip^ures refer to the numbers of seedlings.) 



leaf-like. I sowed the seeds of this plant, but tlie a])- 

 normality was not repeated : there were however among 

 its offspring 3 latas and one elliptica. The experiment 

 was not continued. 



For the next three years (1891-3) I did not culti- 

 vate either this or the other lafa-fm-nilyl on account of 

 the difficulties of fertilization. In 1894 I took it up 



