MENDELIAN CHARACTERS IN BEARDED IRISES. 291 



G. 188. ' Maori King ' X ' Cordelia,' 79 seeds germinated, 66 

 flowered, 13 died unflowered. 



Type and Colour of Flowers. 



Beard. 



Leaves. 



(N) Neglecta type \ 

 purple, white ground/ 3 



(V) Variegata and Squalens\ 

 yellow ground J 



(T) Tipped 46 

 1 (Y) (not tipped) 20* 



(C) Coloured 37 



(G) Green 33 

 (not coloured) 



G. 189. ' Maori King ' X ' Thorbeck,' 49 seeds germinated, 

 43 flowered, 6 died unflowered. 



Type and Colour of Flowers. 



Beard. 



Leaves. 



(N) 19 

 (V) 24 



(T) 14 

 (Y) 29t 



(C) 38 

 (G) 7 



G. 190. 'Maori King' X C. 8. a. ( = 'Cordelia' X 'Thorbeck'), 

 74 seeds germinated, 66 flowered, 8 died unflowered. 



Type and Colour of Flowers. 



Beard. 



Leaves. 



(N) 32 

 (V) 34 



(T) 36 

 (Y) sot 



(Q 39 

 (G) 30 



Combinations or distributions of the characters in pairs of the 

 seedlings of G. 190 cross. 



Colour of Flowers and Leaf Colouring. 



(N) (C) (N) (G) 

 21 11 



(V) (C) (V) (G) 

 17 17 



Colour of Flowers and Beard. 



(N) (T) (N) (Y) 

 18 14 



(V) (T) (V) (Y) 

 18 16 



Colouring of Leaves and Beard. 



(C) (T) (C) (Y) 

 19 19 



(G) (T) (G) (Y) 

 17 11 



* Fourteen of these twenty were slightly tipped. § 



f Five or six were slightly tipped. § 



{ Six to nine of these thirty were very slightly tipped. § 



§ Of the beards noted as being slightly tipped many had literally only half- 

 a-dozen hairs tipped and only to be detected with a lens. 



