Begression tables were made for several characters 

 obtained from the plants studied. Such characters as, 

 height of plant, number of internodes, number of pods, 

 number of peas and yield of seed were observed. The 

 results of these calculations are shown in Table I. 



TABLE i 



"We see that the coefficients of heredity are very low 

 and some of them are even negative. This shows that 

 as far as this data is concerned these fluctuating char- 

 acters do not follow the law of regression to any appre- 

 ciable extent. No emphasis should be placed upon the 

 fact that some of these coefficients are negative, but the 

 point is that they are not positive to any noticeable de- 



