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Second-generation hybrids, of which one parent 

 was at the same time a grandparent. 



The disturbing influence of this hybridization 

 ;was manifest enough from the outset, and the 

 tendency to variation thus initiated was accentu- 

 ated in the next generation, which brought into 

 the cross another species known as H. aulicum. 

 It was still further accentuated in the next gen- 

 eration, when I used as hybridizing agent H. 

 regince, which, it will be recalled, was one of the 

 original parents of H. Johnsoni. 



Thus, having started with a hybrid, I had pro- 

 duced three additional generations of hybrids, in 

 which the parent forms were used and a different 

 species added, so that my fourth-generation hy- 

 brids had the strains of three species curiously 

 blended. 



Persons who care for matters of genealogy 

 might find it of interest to attempt to unravel the 

 pedigrees of these fourth-generation hybrids 

 which had for one parent the species H . regince 

 and for the other a hybrid whose parents were 

 born of a union of H. aulicum and a hybrid of H, 

 Johnsoni and H. vittatum; recalling that H. 

 Johnsoni itself is the offspring of the progenitors 

 of H. regince and H . vittatum. The questions of 

 cousinship involved in such a union are much too 

 complex to interest anyone but the antiquarian. 



