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(2) Sometimes the main axis had its terminal portion spirally twisted in 1-2 
turns, and in this region the flowers were excessively crowded owing to the great 
reduction in the length of the internodes. The flowers were very abnormal, and were 
usually split open and formed large, flat, coloured, petaloid structures which matured 
long before the lower normal flowers of the axis. The side shoots of such plants 
usually carried more or less perfect crowns. These plants were placed in the 
75 % grade. 
(3) Plants in which the main axis was ordinary and carried no crown, but the 
side flower-axes terminated in crowns, consisting of two or more fused flowers, 
were placed in the 50 % grade. 
(4) Plants in which the main axis was markedly dwarfed, lumpy and curved, 
owing to the shortening of the internodes, but the flowers more or less normal, were 
placed in the 50 % grade. 
(5) Plants in which the terminal portion of the main axis was somewhat 
curved, in which the upper internodes were reduced and of which the side shoots 
also showed such a tendency, were placed in the 25 % grade. 
Spiral bending of the axis always occurs with the peloric condition when the 
crown consists of more than three flowers and the axis continues to grow through 
the crown. It is doubtless caused by the suppression of the internodes. 
In the following table the results obtained in the first generation are summarized. 
Parentao-e 
Ia. a (crowned 100 %) $ x (self) 
I. C (1) (crowned 100 %) $ x ^ (self) ... 
X. C (2) (ordinary) ? x (J (self) 
IV. B (4) (ordinary) ^ x ^ (self) 
JVIII. 6'(1) (crowned)? x C'(2) (ordinary) 
( IX. C (2) (ordinary) P x C (1) (crowned) 
/ II. 0(1) (crowned) $ x S (4) (ordinary) ^ 
[ III. B (4) (ordinary) ? x C (1) (crowned) ^ 
V. C (1) (crowned) ? x £ (3) (ordinary) ^ 
( XI. A (crowned) $ x C (3) (ordinary) <? 
\ XII. G (3) (ordinary) x A (crowned) 
j XIV. A (crowned) $ x C (2) (ordinary) (J 
t XV. C (2) (ordinary) <^ x A (crowned) <J 
XVa. A (crowned) $ x C (2) (ordinary) ^ 
XVb. C (2) (ordinary) x A (crowned) cJ 
IXa. C (1) (crowned) 9 x N (2) (ordinary) S 
XXIX. A (crowned) $ x iV(l) (crowned) ^ .. 
XXIV. A (crowned) $ x £ (4) (ordinary) 
XXV. B (4) (ordinary) ^ x A (crowned) ^ 
Totals 
Offspring 
No. 
33 
7 
11 
5 
10 
10 
8 
5 
23 
17 
1 
14 
8 
7 
1 
4 
4 
13 
Crowned oi tendency for same 
100 % 
33 
3 
1 
0 
2 
5 
0 
0 
0 
2 
0 
7 
2 
2 
0 
1 
4 
0 
0 
75% 
60% 
25% 
Total 
crowned 
33 
7 
3 
0 
3 
6 
0 
0 
0 
10 
1 
9 
3 
2 
1 
1 
4 
0 
0 
83 
Not 
crowned 
0 
0 
8 
5 
7 
4 
8 
5 
23 
7 
0 
5 
5 
5 
0 
3 
0 
13 
104 
