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These hybrids, notwithstanding the strain of 

 yellow in their heredity, are as white to all 

 outward appearance as their white parent; a 

 fact which, taken by itself, sufficiently demon- 

 strates that the white parent itself may have 

 the submerged factors for pigment in its 

 heredity. 



It appears to be sufficiently established that 

 white flowers may be white not because 

 they altogether lack heredity factors for pig- 

 mentation, but for the paradoxical reason 

 that they possess these factors in super- 

 abundance. 



We saw in our discussion of the colors of the 

 poppy that there is reason to believe that two 

 dominant colors, grouped together, may neutral- 

 ize or mask each other and produce no tangible 

 character. 



If we revert to an illustration used in another 

 connection, in which we imagined that elfin 

 architects are at work in the germinal nucleus, 

 matching up the different hereditary factors to 

 build a new organism, we may suppose that occa- 

 sions arise when there is a superabundance 

 of material (in the case under consideration, 

 let us say, materials for both yellow blossoms 

 and red blossoms), and that in such a case 

 the architects might agree on a compromise 



