Chap. IV. 



OXALIS SPECIOSA. 



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Table 29 — continued. 

 Oxalis speciosa. 



We here see that thirty-six flowers on the three 

 forms legitimately fertilised yielded 30 capsules, these 

 containing on an ayerage 58*36 seeds. Ninety-five 

 flowers illegitimately fertilised yielded 12 capsules, 

 containing on an average 28 ■ 58 seeds. Therefore the 

 fertility of the six legitimate to that of the twelve 

 illegitimate unions, as judged by the proportion of 

 flowers which yielded capsules, is as 100 to 15, and 

 judged by the average number of seeds per capsule as 

 100 to 49. This plant, in comparison with the two 

 South American species previously described, produces 



