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three following plants of the present lot, the seeds of 

 which I counted. 



Plant 11. This long-styled plant produced a large crop 

 of capsules, and in this respect was one of the most fertile 

 of the whole lot of nineteen plants. But the average from 

 ten capsules was only 35.9 seeds, with a maximum of 60 

 and a minimum of 8. 



Plant 12. This long-styled plant produced very few 

 capsules, and ten yielded an average of only 15.4 seeds, 

 with a maximum of 30 and a minimum of 4. 



Plant 13.^ This plant offers an anomalous case; it flow- 

 ered profusely, yet produced very few capsules; but these 

 contained numerous seeds. Ten capsules yielded an aver- 

 age of 71.9 seeds, with a maximum of 95 and a minimum of 

 29. Considering that this plant was illegitimate and ille- 

 gitimately fertilised by its brother long-styled seedlings, 

 the average and the maximum are so remarkably high that 

 I cannot at all understand the case. We should remember 

 that the average for a legitimate plant legitimately fertil- 



CLASS III. Illegitimate Plants raised from a Short- 

 styled Parent fertilised with pollen from own-form 

 mid-length stamens. 



I raised from this union nine plants, of which eight 

 were short-styled and one long-styled; so that there 

 seems to he a strong tendency in this form to repro- 

 duce, when self-fertilised, the parent- form; but the 

 tendency is not so strong as with the long-styled. 

 These nine plants never attained the full height of le- 

 gitimate plants growing close to them. The anthers 

 were contabescent in many of the flowers on several 

 plants. 



Plant 14. This short-styled plant was allowed during 

 1865 to be freely and legitimately fertilised by illegitimate 

 plants descended from self -fertilised mid-, long-, and short- 

 styled plants. Fifteen capsules yielded an average of 28.3 

 seeds, with a maximum of 51 and a minimum of 11. Hence 



