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RESEDA ODORATA. 



CHAP. IV. 



because their stigmas did not receive any pollen, for they were 

 repeatedly fertilised with pollen from the same plant with no 

 effect ; but they were perfectly fertile with pollen from any other 

 plant Spontaneously self-fertilised seeds were saved from one 

 of the highly self-fertile plants, and other seeds were collected 

 from the plants growing outside the nets, which had been 

 crossed by the bees. These seeds after germinating on sand 

 were planted in pairs on the opposite sides of five pots. The 

 plants were trained up sticks, and measured to the summits of 

 their leafy stems the flower-stems not being included. We here 

 have the result : 



TABLE XXXVII. 



Reseda odorata (seedlings from a highly Self -fertile Plant). 



The average height of the nineteen crossed plants is here 

 27 '48, and that of the nineteen self-fertilised 22 55 inches ; or as 

 100 to 82. All these plants were cut down in the early autumn 



