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Table showing the constitution of the F^s raised from crosses in which 6/3 

 and its progeny were used. 



* The origin of the Fi plants is shown in the preceding table. 65'V4 was a short- 

 styled plant raised from the double pollination (see Bateson and Gregory, I.e. p. 585) of 

 a long- styled ? x self and 6/3. 



t Two plants from this family were bred from and gave respectively : 



xSelf 



241/6 ? X Long-styled (f Long-styled ? x 24i/6<? 



241/6 

 242/6 



Short 

 61 

 76 



Long 





 21 



Short 

 38 



Long 

 



Short 

 58 



Long 

 



Leaf-Shape. 



There is a considerable range of variation in the form of the leaf in 

 Primula sinensis. Besides the common palmate and fern-leaf varieties, 

 Messrs Sutton have raised a strain in which the peculiar lobing of the 

 leaf is repeated in the petals, which also somewhat resemble the leaf in 

 form\ Of other types, the Ivy-leaf is described below ; while I have 



1 Roy. Hort. Soc. Journ. Vol. xxxv. Pt. i. 1909, p. xxxvi. The leaves of this variety 

 are described as approaching those of Ivy ; it may be well, therefore, to point out that the 

 character is a different one from that of the strain to which I have applied the name of 

 " Ivy-leaf " in this paper. 



