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starvation than for two. Compare the results for num- 

 ber of pods per plant, and for seeds per pod. 



The inter-ramal differences appear in Tables XIII- 

 XVI. Of the 28 comparisons, direct and cross, of mean 

 number of ovules, 18 are negative and 10 positive; that 

 is, m 18 cases, the plants with starved ancestry have a 

 lower number of ovules per pod. Thus the deviation 



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