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large quantities of seeds, obviously affords the 

 best opportunities. As such, I have chosen the 

 common snapdragon of the gardens, Antirrhi- 

 num majus. It has many striped varieties, 

 some tall, others of middle height, or of dwarfed 

 stature. In some the ground-color of the flow- 

 ers is yellow, in others it is white, the yellow 

 disappearing, with the exception of a large 

 mark in the throat. On these ground-colors the 

 red pigment is seen lying in streaks of pure car- 

 mine, with white intervals where the yellow 

 fails, but combined with yellow to make a fiery 

 red, and with yellow intervals when that color 

 is present. This yellow color is quite constant 

 and does not vary in any marked degree, not- 

 withstanding the fact that it seems to make 

 narrower and broader stripes, according to the 

 parts of the corolla left free by the red pig- 

 ment. But it is easily seen that this appearance 

 is only a fallacious one. 



The variety of snapdragon chosen was of me- 

 dium height and with the yellow ground-color, 

 and is known by horticulturists as A. majus 

 luteum rubro-striatum. As the yellow tinge 

 showed itself to be invariable, I may limit my 

 description to the red stripes. 



Some flowers of this race are striped, others 

 are not. On a hasty survey there seem to be 

 three types, pure yellow, pure red, and stripes 



