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Plant 29. This long-styled plant was legitimately fertilised 

 during the unfavourable season of 1864, in the manner described 

 under No. 26, and yielded an average, from ten capsules, of 

 84 6 seeds, with a maximum of 132 and a minimum of 47, thug 

 attaining to 91 per cent, of the normal fertility. During the 

 highly favourable season of 1866, when fertilised in the manner 

 described under No. 26, it yielded an average, from nine cap- 

 sules (one poor capsule having been excluded), of 100 seeds, 

 with a maximum of 121 and a minimum of 77. This plant thus 

 exceeded the normal standard, and produced 107 per cent, of 

 seeds. In both sets of anthers there were a good many bad and 

 shri veiled pollen- grains, but not so many as in the last-described 

 plant. 



Plant 80. This long-styled plant was legitimately fertilised 

 during 1866 in the manner described under No. 26, and yielded 

 an average, from eight capsules, of 94 seeds, with a maximum 

 of 106 and a minimum of 66 ; so that it exceeded the normal 

 standard, yielding 101 per cent, of seeds. 



Plant 31. Some flowers on this long-styled plant were arti- 

 ficially and legitimately fertilised by one of its brother illegiti- 

 mate mid-styled plants ; and five capsules yielded an average of 

 90 '6 seeds, with a maximum of 97 and a minimum of 79. 

 Hence, as far as can be judged from so few capsules, this plant 

 attained, under these favourable circumstances, 98 per cent, of 

 the normal standard. 



CLASS VII. Illegitimate Plants raised from Mid-styled 

 Parents fertilised with pollen from the longest stamens 

 of the short-styled form. 



It was shown in the last chapter that the union from 

 which these illegitimate plants were raised is far more 

 fertile than any other illegitimate union ; for the mid- 

 styled parent, when thus fertilised, yielded an average 

 (all very poor capsules being excluded) of 102' 8 seeds, 

 with a maximum of 130 ; and the seedlings in the 

 present class likewise have their fertility not at all 

 lessened. Forty plants were raised ; and these attained 

 their full height and were covered with seed-capsulea 



