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production of individuals of the opposite race in both 

 cases as atavism. The striped offspring of the red parents 

 resemble their grandparents. The red offspring of the 

 striped parents resemble the wild species, that is, their 

 very remote ancestors. Thus the difference in the in- 

 tensity of inheritance could be expressed in the state- 

 ment that the influence of the nearer ancestors is greater 

 than that of the remoter ones. But this is merely a re- 

 statement of the facts in conventional terminology. It 

 affords no clue to the solution of the problem. 



Amongst the finely striped individuals in the culture 

 under consideration there were thirteen plants which had, 

 besides the striped terminal portion of the main stem 

 and the several striped lateral branches, one or two twigs 

 with red flowers exclusively. A good opportunity was 

 thus offered of studying inheritance in bud-variants. I 

 owed it to the fact that the seeds had been sown early, 

 the plants had been grown far apart and the ground 

 well manured; circumstances which together brought 

 about a profuse branching in all the plants. I trans- 

 planted these individuals to a separate spot, picked off 

 all the open flowers and young fruits and superfluous 

 twigs, and enclosed 1-2 striped and 1-2 red s])ikes in 

 bags to insure pure self-fertilization. 



PERCENTAGES 



From the red \ 

 spikes j 



From tlie striped \ 

 spikes ) 



I obtained a sufficient harvest of the striped and red 

 spikes of the same plant from three individuals only. 



