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Lotus 2d 5 5/8 of inch

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[Proof sheet of Forms of flowers, p. 338]

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June 3d continued / Lotus

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compared. The self-fertility of Primula veris increased after several generations of illegitimate fertilisation, which is a process closely analogous to self-fertilisation, but only as long as the plants were cultivated under the same favourable conditions. I have also elsewhere shown* (*Journal Linn Soc Bot Vol X 1867 p. 417 & 419) that with Primula Veries & sinensis, equal-styled varieties occasionally appear which possess the sexual organs of the two forms combined in the same flower. Consequently they fertilise themselves in a legitimate manner and are highly self-fertile but the remarkable fact is that they are rather more fertile than ordinary plants of the same species legitimately fertilised by pollen from a distant individual.

[Cross and self fertilisation, p. 351: "The self-fertility of Primula veris increased after several generations of illegitimate fertilisation, which is a process closely analogous to self-fertilisation, but only as long as the plants were cultivated under the same favourable conditions. I have also elsewhere shown* that with Primula veris and sinensis, equal-styled varieties occasionally appear which possess the sexual organs of the two forms combined in the same flower. Consequently they fertilise themselves in a legitimate manner and are highly self-fertile; but the remarkable fact is that they are rather more fertile than ordinary plants of the same species legitimately fertilised by pollen from a distinct individual."]