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CONCLUDING EEMAKKS 

 Table 33. 



Chap. VI. 



Fertility of the Legitimate Unions taken together, compared with 

 that of the Illegitimate Unions together. The fertility of the 

 Legitimate Unions, as judged hy both standards, is taken as 100* 



Illegitimiite UnlonB. 



Name of Species. 



Proportional 

 Number of 



Flowers 

 which pro- 

 duced 

 Capsules. 



Average 

 Number of 

 Seeds per 

 Capsule. 



Primula veris 



P. elatior 



P. vulgaris 



P. Sinensis 



P. Sinensis (second trial) 



P. Sinensis (Hildebrand) 



P. auricula (Scott) 



P. Sikkimensis „ 



P. cortusoides „ 



P. involucrata „ 



P. farinosa „ 



Average of the nine species of Primnla 

 Hottonia palustris (H. Miiller) .... 

 Linum grandiflorum (the difference probably! 



is much greater) / 



L. perenne 



L. perenne (Hildebrand) 



Pulmonaria officinalis (German stock, Hilde-) 



brand) / 



Pulmonaria angustifolia 



Mitchella repens 



Borreria, Brazilian sp 



Polygonum fagopyrum 



Lythrum salicaria 



Oxalis Valdiriana (Hildebrand). 



0. Regnelli ,, .... 



O. speciosa 



65 

 75 

 54 

 63 

 53 

 42 

 15 

 31 

 66 

 48 

 44 

 69 

 61 



69 



20 

 







32 

 47 





 46 

 46 

 34 





 49 



the two sexes of dioecious plants. Nor does the calyx 

 differ, but the corolla sometimes differs slightly in shape, 

 owing to the different position of the anthers. In Bor- 

 reria the hairs within the tube of the corolla are differ- 

 ently situated in the long-styled and short-styled forms. 

 In Pulmonaria there is a slight difference in the size of 



