352 Gates. 
Table 9. 
Offspring of O. /aevifolia, plant No. 2. 12 plants, 8 of which 
produced flowers. 
Number of plant Color pattern (modal condition). 
2 6—7 
3 56 
4 5 
5 5 
6 ul, 
7 5 
8 5 
10 5 
Table to. 
Offspring of O. /aevifolia, plant No. 15. 8 plants, 7 of which 
produced flowers. 
Color pattern (modal condition). 
Number of plant | 
July 26 August 7 
T == o—2 
3 [6) 3—5, pale red 
5 1—2 5 
6 ° 3a 
7 — 35 
8 — 35 
In table ro it will be seen that, in plants which bloomed early, 
the later flowers showed an increase in the color pattern. The 
offspring of No. 2 were all fairly close to their parent, and the same 
is true of the offspring of No. 15 in their later flowers, except No. I 
which showed a marked reduction in red. The results are not in 
themselves extensive enough to draw any conclusions regarding the 
inheritance of the sepal color pattern, and are only entered here for 
the sake of certain indications they give in general harmony with 
the other results. 
O. grandiflora (from Alabama) also shows sometimes on its sepals 
the whole range of color pattern found in O. rubrinervis (see fig. 2), 
though the pattern is often less definite in its development than is 
the case in O. rubrinervis, and in some races no red pigment appears 
on the sepals at all, a condition which is rare in O. rubrinervis. In 
fig. I there is a photographic comparison of typical buds from (a) 
