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tion, and the opinion is expressed that there is no reason to believe that 
strength of inheritance is any different in Shirley poppies from that in anim 
Another gain is seen in the recognition of the entire plant as the here 
unit, instead of the separate flowers, the latter view having been maint 
in the earlier paper. 
The characters used were the number of stigmatic bands, number of 
and petaloid stamens, color of petals, presence of a margin, presence of a 
spot and its color, and wrinkling of the petals. Each of these characters ' 
divided into a number of categories designated in a manner that makes 
personal equation a very esha factor, e. g. with reference to the presence ¢ 
basal spot, the classes are ‘none, none i slight, slight, slight to well-defin 
well-defined, well-defined to large, large.” The observers found these ca 
gories very difficult to separate, and think there is no evidence of allelomo 
of Shirley poppies could awe be expected to show evidences of allelomorp 
characters.—GEorGE H. SHuL 
Drying of seedlings and sporelings——RaseE finds that germinated sé 
and spores resist drying more or less well.3° With advancing germinative s 
and exhaustion of reserve food the resistance to drying diminishes. 
will withstand much longer drying in the air than in a sulfuric acid desicca 
The separated hypocotyl of a seedling always dies upon being fully dried 0 
The cotyledons are more resistant than the plumule, and of the latter the grow 
point and the axillary buds are more resistant than the leaves. The separates 
and dried portions of the seedling, if they are yet alive, are as vigorous in repro 
ducing as the separated portions of the fresh seedling. In spite of the defective 
storage and marked shrinkage, the seedling of the unripe seed will withsta 
drying nearly as well as the seedling of the ripe seed. Seedlings of xeroph. 
are more resistant to drying than those of hydrophytes. The presence of th 
ssio 
of related species show no relation in their power to withstand ‘efi Watet 
free chemical reagents, as alcohol and benzene, act more harmfully on germin 
dried seedlings than on ungerminated dried seeds. The germinated dried 
in the air or in a sulfuric acid desiccator. Germinated spores of ferns and 
worts withstand but little drying. The power of plants to withstand dry 
depends mainly upon the peculiar properties of their protoplasm.—Ww. Crock! 
3° RABE, FRANz, Ueber die Austrock gsfahigkeit gekeimt Samen und Spore 
Flora 95: 253-324. 1905. 
