CIIAV VI. CROSSED AND SELF-FERTILISED PLANTS. 195 



(raised from the Plants in Pot IV., in Table L XXIX.). Two 

 similar lots of seeds, obtained from the plants in Pot IV. in 

 Table LXXIX., in -which the single crossed plant was at 

 first shorter, but ultimately much taller than its self-fertilised 

 opponent, were treated in every way like their brethren of the 

 same generation in the last experiment We have in the follow- 

 ing Table LXXXI. the measurements of the present plants. 

 Although the crossed plants greatly exceeded in height the self- 

 fertilised ; yet in three out of the five pots a self-fertilised plant 

 flowered before any one of the crossed ; in a fourth pot simul- 

 taneously ; and in a fifth (viz., Pot II.) a crossed plant flowered 

 first. 



TABLE LXXXI. 



Petunia violacea (Fourth Generation ; raised from Plants of the 

 Third Generation in Pot IV., Table LXXIX.). 



The thirteen crossed plants here average 44 '74, and the 

 thirteen self-fertilised plants 26 '87 inches in height; or as 100 

 to 60. The crossed parents of these plants were much taller, 

 relatively to the self-fertilised parents, than in the last case ; and 

 apparently they transmitted some of this superiority to theii 



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