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form varied over double the range which could be attributed 

 to fluctuation. 



One autogenetic factor in the width of the boll is the 

 number of boU-loculi. Without attempting to correct for 

 any possible modality in the diagram we found the value 

 for correlation between these two characters in Fa to be 

 "r"= 0-331 (± 0-061). The explanation is presumably 

 mechanical ; the bolls with more loculi have' more septa, 



Charara 



King 



Length 



Fia. 62. — Form of the Boll. 



and these occupy more space, hence the boll diameter is 

 greater. 



More information on these two characters is highly 

 desirable, because of their economic importance. 



The loculi of the ovary. — The inheritance of this 

 meristic character is of peculiar inteirest, since it is not a 

 character of form, but of distribution, and analogous to 

 such "things as the number of ray-florets in the Compositce. 



A cross (Fig. 63) between an Upland with its mean at 

 4-3 and an Egyptian with a mean at 3"0 produced an 

 intermediate Fi with the formula 4-1. In Fj this family 



M 2 



