David Starr Jordan 



poppy produces an abortive flower inside the cap- 

 sule. All seedlings always vary more or less. 

 With the same parent, one fruit may be two and 



Capsules of Second Generation Hybrid Poppies, showing series of vari- 

 ations from complete absence of capsules to capsules of unusual size and to 

 double capsules of unusual size. These selected at random from about two 

 thousand plants. The individual plants which produce these types generally 

 follow them in all the capsules. 



one half or more times the diameter of the other, 

 of a different color, flavor or differing in almost 

 all respects. ' ' There is no prepotency of male or 

 female as such. Prepotency depends wholly on 



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