152 Scientific Intelligence. 
the — and applied to them, as to their mother before ont the 
po n of several species of lilies. This time the seeds were ex- 
Genely mat: A few, however, were reebased but the oleate 
and flowers that resulted Ce them were, to all appearance, Z. 
superbum pure and s 
In trials of other spines results intermediate between these two 
cases were obtained. For instance the pure white of the perianth 
the herbag 
unaffected ; but in that or the next ‘generation “ distinct stapes 
could be seen of the eet of alien pollen” in the changed color of 
many of the anthers, and in the abortion of others. They “ass 
showed differences of habit among themselves, some being ve 
sae and vigorous, oe others compact and bus shy, W with a tendency 
o bloom in clusters; but these ma y have been mere seedling 
veeldthoria with whieh the dipbeldinetioi had nothing to do.” Yet 
some of these marks correspond with known results of hybridiza- 
tion 
That offspring should partake ster oe of the characters of the 
two A sone is a matter of commo: observation. That in the genus 
in forty i nstance “yr = fifty take 
shown, is verre remarkable. That, in not a few instances it should 
take them al 
should be rey resented = cases — extraordin ae ‘ 
the name of the two parents, t shat of the male ing. The 
plan had the double advantage of indicating the origin of the 
cross, and of distinguishing rt ae om species in nomenclature ; 
in practice it proves insufficien 
