482 On the Latent Capacity for Mutation. 



experiments I recorded about 30 polymerous flowers 

 partly in the field and partly in my laevifolia-isimily. Be- 

 low is a summary of these cases, giving also the date and 

 place or family in which they occurred. The numbers 

 of stigmas is noted separately (N), but the number of 

 divisions of the fruit (O) have been omitted in some 

 cases. 



Even from the above incomplete summary it is suf- 

 ficiently evident that the distribution of the frequencies 

 of these anomalies would give half-Galton-curves. In 



