386 Origin of Each Species Considered Separately. 



arate beds and the young plants recorded at the end of 

 June. 



As the seeds were sown thin and as a great many 

 did not come up, the seedHngs stood far apart and had 

 plenty of room in which to develop their characteristic 

 features. 



I counted :^ 



This experiment showed that each of the 14 seed pa- 

 rents gave rise to the three chief forms, when self- 

 fertilized. They did this moreover, so far as the small 

 numbers enable us to judge, in not very widely different 

 proportions. 



In this experiment the original mutant was fertilized 

 by insects ; but all the subsequent mutants which appeared 

 were enclosed in parchment bags, as soon as they began 

 to flower, and artificially self-fertilized. The first to be 

 treated thus was the scintillans, mentioned on p. 262, 

 which appeared in 1896 in a branch of the Lamarckiana- 

 family. Six stems were developed from the axils of its 

 radical leaves and a quantity of seed was set. I also 

 succeeded in taking cuttings from the remaining branches 

 of the rosette : they survived the winter and flowered in 

 the following year. I sowed the 1896 seed partly in 

 1897 and partly in 1898, in the former year both in pans 

 and in a bed in the garden. The three crops raised in this 

 way were composed as follows :^ 



^ See the table on p. 244. ^ See the second table on p. 245. 



