202 ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING OF CHAP. V. 



Plant 27. This mid-styled plant, fertilised during 1864 

 in the same manner as the last, yielded an average, from 

 ten capsules, of 99.4 seeds, with a maximum of 122 and a 

 minimum of 53, thus attaining to 76 per cent, of the normal 

 fertility. If the season had been more favourable, its fer- 

 tility would probably have been somewhat greater, but, 

 judging from the last experiment, only in a slight de- 

 gree. 



Plant 28. This mid-styled plant, when legitimately fer- 

 tilised during the favourable season of 1866, in the manner 

 described under No. 26, yielded an average, from eight 

 capsules, of 89 seeds, with a maximum of 119 and a mini- 

 mum of 69, thus producing 68 per cent, of the full number 

 of seeds. In the pollen of both sets of anthers, nearly as 

 many grains were small and shrivelled as sound. 



Plant 29. This long-styled plant was legitimately fer- 

 tilised, 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, thus 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 capsules (one poor 

 capsule having been excluded), of 100 seeds, with a maxi- 

 mum of 121 and a minimum of 77. This plant thus ex- 

 ceeded the normal standard, and produced 107 per cent, 

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

 bad and shrivelled pollen-grains, but not so many as in the 

 last-described plant. 



Plant SO. This long-styled plant was legitimately fer- 

 tilised 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 



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

 artificially and legitimately fertilised by one of its brother 

 illegitimate mid-styled plants ; and five capsules yielded an 

 average of 90.6 seeds, with a maximum of 97 and a mini- 

 mum of 79. Hence, as far as can be judged from so few 

 capsules, this plant attained, under these favourable cir- 

 cumstances, 98 per cent, of the normal standard. 



