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other strains are capable of being permanently fixed. Mr. Engleheart 
makes some further remarks which I am anxious to quote. Apart from 
hybrids he says : I think even species, or, to avoid a debatable word, 
what I may call simple Narcissi, do not come true from seed in cultiva- 
tion. I have often been struck by the following curious fact. If we get, 
say, N. maximus from its original habitat at the French foot of the 
Pyrenees the bulbs all give identical flowers, or flowers varying scarcely 
at all. But flowers self-fertilised from these bulbs brought to my garden 
immediately give large divergences in their seedlings, many reverting to 
a very poor weedy type. The same is true of the ' Tenby ' Daffodil and 
others. I believe that their new environment or new conditions generally 
of cultivation, upset the equilibrium, so to speak, to which the plant has 
attained in its wild habitat. 
Orchids. — Mr. C. C. Hurst writes me as follows : " So far as I know 
only three distinct hybrid Orchids have been seeded from their own 
pollen, viz. Papliiopedilium (Cypripedmm) Harrisianum, P. vexillariumy 
and Epidendrum 0' Brienianum. All came true to type with some 
variation, but none are recorded as reversions to the ancestral species 
(grandparents)." 
Papaver somnifero-bracteatum. — Vouched by Mons. Mottet, of 
Verrieres-le-Buisson. 
Pelargonium. — Hybrids of P. inguinans and P. zonale. Vouched for 
by Mons. Mottet. Pelargoniums ' Christine ' and ' Mad. Voucher ' are said 
by Burbidge to produce themselves quite true from seed. 
Pentstemon. — Eeputed hybrids of P. gentianoides, with P. diffusiLS 
and P. Cobcsa. Vouched by Mons. Mottet. In the Cambridge Botanic 
Gardens seedlings have been raised for bedding, and certainly there never 
was a reversion. The large flowered form comes true as to size, and does 
not produce the small flowered original. 
Petunia. — Hybrids of P. nyctaginiflora and P. violacea. Vouched by 
Mons. Mottet. In the Cambridge Botanic Garden the variety ' Countess 
of Ellesmere ' comes perfectly true from seed, even to colour. Bailey says 
the Petunia affords an admirable example of a hybrid which is abundantly 
fertile, and which holds its own from year to year. See interesting 
article, with illustrations, by Bailey, *' Survival of the Unlike," p. 465. 
Bhododendron. — Malayan section. Messrs. Jas. Veitch & Sons 
write : " Once only has a hybrid variety been fertilised by pollen of the 
same variety. The seedlings conformed sufficiently to the parent to be 
distributed under the same name." 
Bhododendron Nohleanum [B. caucasicumx arbor eum). — Vouched by 
Mr. Lindsay. 
Senecio {Cineraria) Lynchi {Senecio muUiflorus $ x Garden Cineraria). 
— In the Cambridge Botanic Garden few seeds are produced; but Mr. J. K. 
Budde, of the Botanic Garden, Utrecht, informs me that it produces 
plenty of seed with him, and reproduces itself. 
Senecio vulgaris x S. squalidus, or reciprocal. — This hybrid, I believe, 
must come under the head of those able to reproduce themselves true 
from seed. The original seed was sent me by Mr. F. W. Burbidge, and 
being mixed probably, as the plants were, according to his account in the 
Irish Naturalist of November 1897, p. 800, produced naturally a crop of 
