CHAP. IV. 



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These plants were better nourished than those in the pets and 

 grew to a greater height. The eight tallest plants in each row 

 were measured in the same manner as before, with the following 

 result : 



TABLB XXXVI. 



Reseda lutea, growing in the open ground. 



Lhe average height of the crossed plants, whilst in full flower, 

 here 28 '09, and that of the self-fertilised 23 "14 inches ; or as 

 100 to 82. It is a singular fact that the tallest plant in the two 

 rows, was one of the self-fertilised. The self-fertilised plants had 

 smaller and paler green leaves than the crossed. All the plants 

 in the two rows were afterwards cut down and weighed. The 

 twenty crossed plants weighed 65 ounces, and twenty self-ferti- 

 lised (by calculation from the actual weight of the thirty-two self- 

 fertilised plants) weighed 26 25 ounces ; or as 100 to 40. There- 

 fore the crossed plants did not exceed in weight the self-fertilised 

 plants in nearly so great a degree as those growing in the 

 pots, owing probably to the latter having been subjected to more 

 severe mutual competition. On the other hand, they exceeded 

 the self-fertilised in height in a slightly greater degree. 



RESEDA ODOBATA. 



Plants of the common mignonette were raised from purchased 

 seed, and several of them were placed under separate nets. Of 

 these some became loaded with spontaneously self-fertilised cap- 

 sules ; others produced a few, and others not a single one. It 

 must not be supposed that these latter plants produced no seed 



