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season. Shull found such a variation in a white aster he studied 
to be quite marked (Amer. Nat., 36:111-152). The amount of 
variation, due to this cause, there would be in plants of this 
study cannot be told, for no record was kept for that purpose, but 
it would probably be considerable. 
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