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special type of bud-variation, and from this 

 point of view we may simplify our inquiry and 

 limit ourselves to the inheritance of three types, 

 the striped plants, the red plants and the red 

 asexual variants of the striped individuals. In 

 each case the heredity should be observed not 

 only for one, but at least for two successive 

 generations. 



Leaving these introductory remarks I now 

 come at once to the genealogical tree, as it may 

 be deduced from my experiments : 



This experiment was begun in the year 1892 

 with one individual out of a large lot of striped 

 plants grown from seeds which I had purchased 

 from a firm in Erfurt. The capsules were gath- 

 ered separately from this individual, and about 

 40 flowering plants were obtained from the 

 seeds in the following year. Most of them had 

 neatly striped flowers, some displayed broader 

 stripes and spare flowers were seen with one- 



