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Table 24. — 'Mid-styled Form — continy,ed. 



* I have hardly a doubt that 

 this result of 136 seeds in comparU 

 meat V. was due to a gross error. 

 The flowers to be fertilised by 

 their own longest stamens were 

 first marked by " white thread," 

 and those by the mid-length 

 stamens of the long-styled form 

 by "white silk ;" a flower fertilised 

 in the later manner would have 

 yielded about 136 seeds, and it may 

 be observed that one such pod is 



missing, viz. at the bottom of 

 compartment I. Therefore I have 

 hardly any doubt that I fertilised 

 a flower marked with " white 

 thread " as if it had been marked 

 ■with " white silk." With respect 

 to the capsule which yielded 92 

 seeds, in the same column with 

 that which yielded 136, I do 

 not know what to think. I 

 endeavoured to prevent pollen 

 dropping from an upper to a lower 



