. \ Illegitimate I union. I Incomplete fertility. Long-styled form. Short-etyled 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 iiowers which yield capsules. The two methods might

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