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French one suggests), but when they come to mature and dry 

 up they only shrivell away as in fig. I. 



Previous to the crossing which was done in the spring of 

 1914 I devoted sometime to the examination and separation 

 of pure line and thus I used the materials of pure line for the 

 present experiment. 



Fig. I. 



J — Japanese white pea. F — French sugar pea. 



F x : I obtained F t plants (1915) from the seeds of hybrids 

 between French and Japanese pea. The pod of F, plants were 

 all of the same nature among their fraternity but they did not 

 resemble those of either of parents in regard to the texture of 

 pod, i.e. they had hard inedible pods even while they are young 

 and when matured the flanks of pods open in twisting when 

 dried in the sun as is the usual case with pods having parch- 

 ment-like lining as in fig. II. 



I did not expect to have such hard pod or reversional 



