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the ratio 2,239/1,200 and placed them beside mine in 

 Table I. The character of the pods is also shown graph- 

 ically in the diagram where the solid lines represent Un- 

 English and the dotted lines the American pods. 



I think these polygons agree remarkably well. The 

 empirical range is essentially identical. In both cases 

 the highest class is 20. Pearson found no pods with an 

 entire absence of seeds in the 1,200 which he examined, 

 though he suggests that such may exist; I found 2 in the 

 2,239 of my lot. At first the differences between the fre- 

 quency of pods in the individual classes, as shown in the 

 fourth column of the table, and graphically in the dia- 

 gram, seem rather large. But we must remember that 

 two series of countings from the same individual would 



