rosettes and 90 of the dwarf. This culture at maturity 

 proved much more varied than the former (11.41). The 

 plants at the more grandi flora-like end of the culture were 

 in general considerably larger (1.7-2 m. high) than those 

 at the biennis end (1-1.5 m. high), but there were many 

 exceptions to the rule. The foliage proved exceedingly 

 diverse. Occasional plants (about 20) presented a 

 foliage similar to grandiflora although never matching 

 the parent strain in all respects; a smaller number of 

 plants (about 5) presented a foliage resembling that of 

 hie it ids. The foliage, excluding the exceptional types, 

 ranged from lanceolate leaves to broadly elliptical or 

 ovate leaves with well defined crinkles. 



Many plants bore flowers as large as and larger than 

 those of the grundijinru parent and with a similar rela- 

 tion of the stigma lobes to the tips of the anthers. The 

 larger flowers equaled in size those of the largest -flowered 

 types of Lamarcliiana. Other plants bore flowers ap- 

 proaching in size those of the biennis parent, but never 

 so small. There was no fixed relation of the larger 

 flowers to the plants more grqndiflora-\ike in foliage or 

 of the smaller flowers to those more biennis-like, although 

 larger and smaller flowers were in some instances found 

 on plants approaching the respective parents. 



The mass of the culture was fairly close to the F 2 

 hybrid plant 11.30L6, varying from it in habit, and in the 

 form and measurements of the leaves and flower parts. 

 There was not so strongly marked a tendency on the part 

 of the plants towards the grandiflora parent as was 

 exhibited by the former culture. The flowers, as indi 

 cated above, showed the same progressive advance in 

 size, many of them being larger than those of grandiflora 

 and none so small as those of the biennis parent. 



A count of the plants made with Mr. Bartlett led to a 

 clarification of 104 red-stemmed and 90 green-stemmed 

 in the group of 833 plants. The remainder of the culture 



