SUGAR 145 



Saccharum spontaneum, which grows all over the 

 country. There is this interesting fact to record : The 

 wild Saccharum is not constant in minute details of 

 morphology, but varies a great deal, and some of these 

 variations are such as to place it in relation first with 

 one group of cultivated sugar-canes and then with 

 .another. These variations in S. spontaneum will there- 

 fore be carefully studied. 



The morphology of a number of seedlings of known 

 parents has been noted, and it will form an interesting 

 inquiry as to how much and in what direction the fixed 

 characters of the cultivated canes vary in their seedlings, 

 and it is hoped that by this study we shall be in a still 

 better position to choose systematic characters of import- 

 ance and trace the relationship of the different groups. 



