Archive image from page 38 of The different forms of flowers The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species differentformsof01darw Year: 1877 Chap. I. PRIMULA VERlg. 27 Returning to Table 7, if we consider only the good capsules, those from the two legitimate unions were to those from the two illegitimate in number as 71 to 31, or as 100 to 44. Again, if we take an equal number of capsules, whether good or bad, from the legitimately and illegitimately fertilised flowers, we find that the former contained seeds by weight compared with the latter as 50 to 24, or as 100 to 48 ; bu
Archive image from page 38 of The different forms of flowers The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species differentformsof01darw Year: 1877 Chap. I. PRIMULA VERlg. 27 Returning to Table 7, if we consider only the good capsules, those from the two legitimate unions were to those from the two illegitimate in number as 71 to 31, or as 100 to 44. Again, if we take an equal number of capsules, whether good or bad, from the legitimately and illegitimately fertilised flowers, we find that the former contained seeds by weight compared with the latter as 50 to 24, or as 100 to 48 ; but if all the Fig. 2. Legitimate union. Complete fertility. T7 Long-styled form. poor capsules are rejected, of which many were pro- duced by the illegitimately fertilised flowers, the propor- tion is 54 to 35, or as 100 to 65. In this and all other cases, the relative fertility of the two kinds of union can, I think, be judged of more truly by the average number of seeds per capsule than by the proportion of flowers which yield capsules. The two methods might
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