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to this pair of characters, the proportion exhibiting each char- 
acter is approximately equal. In no case, as Table I indicates, 
where more than four plants have been raised from a single 
ly 
conclusion to be drawn from the facts indicated by this table 
series of observations. It would appear, then, that the position 
of the accessory bud is dependent on some factor c into 
play after fertilization has taken place and during the subse- 
quent development of the embryo. 
The constancy of the position of the accessory bud is, thus, 
definite for the main stem. In numerous cases, however, the 
apical bud of the main stem is destroyed early in the growth 
of the plant, and development is continued by the growth of 
branches from the main axillary buds situated below the point 
of injury—two, three, or more equally developed branches 
taking the place of the main stem. Such branches have been 
found to agree with the main stem in that the position of the 
axillary buds is uniformly either to the right of, or to the left 
of, the main bud; but while on one such branch the accessory 
buds may lie to the right, on a second branch of the same 
plant they may lie to the left. Table II indicates the number 
of cases in which. the two or more branches of a single plant 
have been observed to agree or differ in this respect. 
TABLE II. 
PosITION OF ACCESSORY BUD. 
Generation. i ea 
Similar. Different. 
Parent eae ae “= | 4 nd 
a : a 18 | 68 
F, xP 9 14 
P x F, o. o* ho | 
} i 
Toran 31 | 85 
2. Branching.—As has already been noted above, the 
main shoot of the cotton plant is a monopodium. From this 
