INFLUENCE OF STARVATION 



ANCESTRAL SERIES 



•Si; 



COMPARISON SERIES 



(a) The means are in every case conspicuously lower 

 for the starved than for the fed ancestral series. 



(b) The means for the comparison series are closely 

 similar: there is no striking superiority of fed over 

 starved ancestry. 



Here, accordingly, as for number of pods per plant, 

 we must have recourse to numerical differences and their 

 Probable errors. The intra-ramal comparisons are made 

 in Table XII. In three of the four cases, the starved 

 seeds produce pods with more ovules, but in all cases the 

 seed was a year older for one generation of ascendant 



