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F. W. Oliver. 
Confining ourselves to a single pair of characters, redness and 
greenness in Salicornia, a brief account of the results reached is 
not without interest. The transplantations in this case consisted 
of interchanging small sods of red and green forms, respectively, at 
or after the time of flowering. Thus a red matrix was inoculated 
with green plants and a green matrix with red, in the hope that the 
inoculations would ripen and shed their seed in the new habitat. 
This year the systematic examination of the transplantations shewed 
negative results in a large number of cases, i.e. cases in which no 
traces of the inoculated form were discoverable either on or round 
about the inoculated sods. But this does not detract from the 
significance of a considerable number in which the inoculated form 
had perpetuated itself by seed in the new habitat. The most 
striking of these “successes” was a series of “apple-green” 
inoculations in the purest typfe of “ crimson plain ” which the 
Erquy marsh presents. In a majority of these the inoculated sod 
bore a number (ten or fifteen in some cases) of unmistakable apple- 
green plants, whilst occasionally the matrix immediately around the 
inoculation bore similar specimens. As apple-greens are extremely 
scarce in this crimson plain it is difficult to resist the conclusion 
that the plants in and about the inoculations must have originated 
from the parent forms of the inoculation. 
That the soil is not the talisman that determines colour follows 
from several parallel series of transplantations in which the 
Salicornias were removed and the soils alone inoculated. In 
practically all cases these “transplanted denuded soils” produced 
the same crop as the adjacent matrix. 
Another series of transplantations of seedlings still remains to 
be carried out with a view to studying the influence of changed 
environment, for of several hundred experiments made in April 
1906, the great majority failed altogether owing to the drought that 
prevailed; whilst, of those that succeeded, most approximated to 
dingy—but that season, as we have seen, tended to produce dingy 
everywhere, so that no conclusions can be drawn. 
The main result of the transplantation experiments would seem 
to be the establishment of the fact that colour, in the case of apple- 
green, breeds true and propagates its like in an environment which 
normally produces only reds. The same result is indicated in at 
least one other case, but the evidence is less abundant. 
The transplantations are of course intended merely to serve as 
the precursor of more critical breeding experiments—which would 
