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where described are the only two similar ones 

 that ever came under my observation, and they 

 never, so far as I know, have been duplicated 

 before or since. 



But the fact that the lima bean, the conspicu- 

 ous traits of which were mostly submerged and 

 subordinated in the mature hybrid, should have 

 made its influence strongly felt in the seedling 

 at the beginning of its growth is peculiarly in- 

 teresting. 



One recalls the similar case of the raspberry 

 plant hybridized with pollen from the straw- 

 berry. In that case, the young hybrids at first 

 bore close resemblance to the strawberry plant, 

 yet subsequently shot up into the air and took 

 on the aspects of the raspberry vine. In 

 both cases, then, the influence of the seed 

 plant was at first submerged but ultimately 

 preponderant. 



It has been pointed out that as a rule it 

 appears to make no difference in the ultimate 

 character of the hybrids as to which of its 

 parents is the staminate and which the pistil- 

 late one. In any event, the analogy between 

 the hybrid beans and the hybrid strawberry- 

 raspberry, each following first the staminate 

 and then the pistillate parent, is not without 

 interest. 



