10 Flower Colour and Characters of the Opium Poppy 



Effects of P and M in absence of L. 



The following table collates the results of all those families in which 

 the L factor is not present : 



Not only do the combinations expected on the two factor basis all 

 appear but, when due allowance is made for the deficiency in the 

 number of whites and purples, which both lack the factor P, and are 

 therefore late flowering, the numerical results point to the same 

 conclusion. 



The above table also indicates that the factor R is in no way 

 correlated with either of the two factors P or M, a fact which requires 

 to be established in view of subsequent discussion. 



The same conclusion is arrived at when the crosses are considered. 



The two latter crosses thus constitute a direct synthesis of the RB 

 form from the P and MP forms. 



