524 TJie Inconstancy of Fasciatcd Races. 



In the fasciated parts these flowers are broadened and 

 usually more or less divided, the fruit sometimes form- 

 ing a flat structure (Fig. 120^), with or without one or 

 two lateral fruits in the same flower (Fig. \20 c and d). 

 Often these latter are pentamerous. Lastly the whole 

 fruit can be split into two or three nearly equal parts 



10 II 15 20 23 



Fig. 121. Geranium molle fasciatuin. Curve representing 

 the number of sections of the fruit in the individual 

 flowers of the sixth generation, June 1895 ; a, number of 

 normal flowers far above 100; number of flowers with 6 

 to 23 stigmas, 120. 



(Fig 120 b). In these various types of splitting there 

 seems to be a tendency to the production of whorls of five, 

 and the lateral flowers nearly always present this number. 

 My race began with a specimen found wild in 1888 

 and m the third and fourth generations produced 25 to 



