132 Atavism. 



These produced in the summer of 1895 the result shown 

 in the table on page 131. 



In other words, the average intensity of inheritance 

 for striped spikes was 98% and for red ones 71%. 



If we compare these figures with those derived from 

 the previous generation we do not observe any appre- 

 ciable difference between them. In other words, the in- 

 tensity of inlieritance exhibited by the red bud-variants 

 is essentially the same as that of the red seed-variants. 



In the following year I continued this experiment 

 through one more generation by self-fertilizing some 

 striped and some red individuals amongst the offspring 

 of the bud-variants. The seeds of three striped parents 

 gave rise to 67 oft'spring that flowered, only 5% of which 

 were red ; the seeds of the five red seed-parents, however, 

 gave rise to 127 offspring of which 84% were red. (The 

 percentages in the five individual groups were 71-78-84- 

 88 and 100.) Thus the proportions were similar to 

 those of the previous year. 



ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS LUTEUM RUBRO-STRIATUM. 



SEED- AND BUD-VARIATIOX (ANNUAL CULTURES). 



