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of ascertaining what effect environment might have on the form 

 of the flowers. Individual plants, in early spring and before 

 much growth had taken place, were potted in good garden soil 

 and grown indoors like ordinary house plants, others were 

 bedded in similar soil supplied with a generous amount of fertil- 



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Fig. 10 represents the style and stigma from a complete peloric flower, side 

 view. P. T., pore-tube; S. L., stigmatic lobe; S., style; O., ovary. Fig. ii repre- 

 sents the same style and stigma from a front view. 



izing constituents and grown under greenhouse conditions and 

 still others were grown in the muck soil of a damp or swampy 

 area in the open field. The results in all cases were alike, all 

 of the plants without exception produced the previously de- 

 scribed peculiar flowers. 



