340 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [NOVEMBER 
but one criticism; the characters of the female chosen to be the 
mother of all these families might dominate such different char- 
acters as were possessed by the hermaphrodites, in which case 
all families would show identical composition regardless of the 
variations in the pollen parents. This suggested dominating in- 
fluence of the female is rendered untenable, however, by the fact 
that the same female was pollinated by 7 other hermaphrodites 
having different histories from those considered under the present 
case, and also by 11 different males of diverse origin, and in every 
case the males among the progenies were of the same type as their 
pollen parent. 
CASE -V 
WHEN FEMALE OFFSPRING OF SELF-FERTILIZED HERMAPHRODITES ARE CROSSED 
: WITH AN UNRELATED MALE 
Pedigree no. Result Pedigree no. Result 
Poorer 
OOLTA ee ee 219: 84 BOIGG eo fo ees 492: 226 
OL IG sik es 509: 344 ia ee ee Oe 289: 256:1% 
OR os cs. S49 WOOttE ) OGIOG. ose eee ens 332: 236 
eR eS a 392:114 eS Ree or on) SOR: See 
OOLOT ty 362:17¢ 09200 a ee | 269: 226 
OM ie iS: 448590" 09203-6524. eee 229: 176 
OOlGO a i 123: 66 OBIE. es cee 219: -326 
TO Cn te 4719: 3055:4% 
Rees 
These families were produced by pollinating 14 different females, 
taken consecutively in o8115, with pollen from a single normal - 
male, 0855(36), in an unrelated family. The essentially equal 
results of all these crosses indicate that there are no differences 
among these females which were not dominated by the sex char- 
acter of the pollen parent. As this pollen parent was a male from a 
normal male parentage, it may be appropriately assumed to have 
been free from any hypothetically possible hermaphrodite modifier 
H. If such a modifier had been possessed by any of these 14 
females, a more striking evidence of that fact should be presented 
than is found in the occurrence of less than 1 per cent of hermaph- 
rodite individuals among the offspring. This is a smaller percent- 
age of hermaphrodites than has been found in one or two cases 
among the offspring of a female pollinated by a normal male, neither 
