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The Inconsta}icy of Fasciated Races. 



very considerable, and all the intermediate stages can 

 often be observed on the lateral branches of a single plant. 

 The most important result which can be deduced from 

 the experiments which follow is the discovery that the 

 afcrt'isfs or noii-fasciatcd individiials of the race can only 

 he regarded as reversions in the morphological sense; 

 but that physiologically considered, that is, as transmitters 



Fig. 105. Ranuuciihis biilbosus. A fasciated stem which 

 has grown up from a broadened rosette of radical leaves. 

 The terminal flower is also broadened and split. Hilver- 

 sum, 1894. 



of fasciations, they are scarcely inferior to the best fas- 

 ciated specimens of the race. The character in question 

 is only latent in them, or rather only temporarily invisible ; 

 perhaps simply not developed by reason of the absence 

 of some necessarv external factors. 



The atavists do not, so to speak, depart from the 

 race, as do those of Oenothera scintillans; the race con- 



