156 HBTEBOSTYLED TEIMOKPHIO PLANTS. Chap. IV. 



Besides the experiments in the above table, I ferti- 

 lised a considerable number of mid-styled flowers with 

 pollen, taken by a camel's-hair brush, from both the 

 longest and shortest stamens of their own form : only 

 5 capsules were produced, and these yielded on an 

 average 11*0 seeds. 



Table 25. — Short-styled Form. 



I. 



Legitimate •mion. 

 12 flowers fertilised by the short- 

 est stamens of the long-styled. 

 These stamens equal in length the 

 pistil of the short-styled. 



69 56' 

 61 88 



88 112 



66 111 

 62 



100 



II. 

 Legitimate union. 

 13 flowers fertilised by the short- 

 est stamens of the mid-styled. 

 These stamens equal in length the 

 pistil of the short-styled. 



93 39 



77 69 



48 53 



43 9 











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flower, and I tried to remember to 

 wipu the pincers carefully after 

 each fertilisation ; but in making 

 eighteen diffca'ent unions, some- 

 timoa on windy days, and pestei'ed 

 by bees and flies buzzing about, 

 some few errors could hardly be 

 avoided. One day 1 had to keep 

 a third man by me all the time to 

 prevent the bees viaiting the un- 



covered plants, for in a few 

 seconds' time tliey might have 

 done irreparable mischief. It was 

 also extremely difficult to exclude 

 minute Uiptera from the net. In 

 1862 I made the great mistake of 

 placing a mid-styled and long- 

 styled under the same huge net ; 

 in 1863 I avoided this error. 



