Chap. I. 



PRIMULA VERIS. 



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tained no seeds, or only two or three, and these are 

 excluded in the column headed " good capsules " in 

 several of the following tables: — 



Table 6. 

 Primula veris. 



The results may be given in another form (Table 7) 

 by comparing, first, the number of capsules, whether 

 good or bad, or of the good alone, produced by 100 

 flowers of both forms when legitimately and illegiti- 

 mately fertilised; secondly, by comparing the weight 

 of seed in 100 of these capsules, whether good or bad; 

 or, thirdly, in 100 of the good capsules. 



We here see that the long-styled flowers fertilised 

 with pollen from the short-styled yield more capsules, 

 especially good ones (i. e. containing more than one 

 or two seeds), and that these capsules contain a greater 



