Chap. I. 



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many subsequent trials I followed the more accurate 

 plan of counting the seeds. Some of the capsules con- 

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

 excluded in the column headed " good capsules " in 

 seyeral of the following tables : — 



Table 6. 

 Primula veris. 



The results may be giyen 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. 



