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parental connection, but а fresh sowing giving similar results, they 
were compelled to accept it, together with the fact that this immense 
advance had occurred in two generations from the normal. The 


Fig. 10. 
A. f. f. plumosum Normal at top. Axminster plumosum 
elegans (reared A. f. f. plumosum Druery. (found wild). 
from wild find). A. f. f. superbum. 
N.B.—Pinne only throughout. 
plants so obtained varied, but all were extremely beautiful, and one 
named Baldwinii excelled by having its ultimate divisions almost as 
fineashairs. This section still exists, and is embraced in the varietal 
list given elsewhere. Fig. 9 shows the pedigree of this section very 


