MB. I. ANDERSON-HENET ON IMPEEFECT HTBEIDITT. 105 
It remains onlj to add that seed for sowing can be obtained in 
gardens in warmer districts, and always from such places as the 
Channel Islands ; while maize, to be eaten green in the autumn, 
can be grown anywhere with common attention. The same may 
be said of its use for forage. 
Richmond House, Guernsey, 
December 1st. 
XI. On imperfect Hybridity. By I. Andeeson-Henbt, Esq. 
Among the same batch of seedlings from which I obtained VerO' 
nica Andersonii, — V. salicifolia (syn. V. Lindleyand) + V. speciosa, 
— came one which, to all appearance, was a reproduction of the 
male parent pure and simple. And deeming it nothing else, I 
presented it to a friend, V. speciosa being then comparatively a 
new plant ; and he, when he flowered it, came to tell me that it 
had come a very diff'erent thing in bloom to the true V. speciosa, 
having much longer flower-spikes and of a much lighter colour 
than those in that species, being of a light crimson instead of a 
dark purple, as in the V. speciosa. 
A plant of this hybrid has since afforded a further illustration 
of a somewhat similar result. 
Having obtained a suffruticose species of Veronica, under the 
name of V. Dauheneyiana, with light-coloured flowers striated with 
pink lines, in the way of V. fruticulosa, I crossed it on the last- 
mentioned hybrid, which became the seed-bearer. Trom this 
cross I succeeded in raising only two plants ; and one of these I 
believe I have lost. But they seemed both alike in foliage and 
habit ; but both so like the hybrid seed-bearers that I felt doubt- 
ful whether th^ cross had taken. I cannot speak with confidence 
as to their being identically alike, but only of their general aspect. 
The plant I still possess flowered for the first time this past sea- 
son ; and the singularity of its bloom drew my attention to it 
more particularly than before. It had, like the seed-bearer, thick 
fleshy pyriform leaves, but somewhat smaller and more closely set 
on the stem; but instead of being, like it, simply cruciform, 
they were ohliq^uely decussate, therein slightly approaching the 
male parent, a creeping alpine species whose prostrate stems 
show still more the same deflected arrangement of the leaves. It 
was only on a close examination of the part, however, that any 
resemblance to the male, V. Daubeneyiana, could be observed. In 
