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as 71 to 31, or, as 100 to 44. Again if we taken an

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Equal number of capsules, whether good or bad, from the legitimately & 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 poor or bad capsules are rejected, of which many many were produced by the illegitimately fertilised flowers, the proportion is 54 to 35, or ie or 100 to 65.) In this & all other cases, the relative fertility of the two kinds of union can, I think be

[Forms of flowers, p. 27: "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 poor capsules are rejected, of which many were produced by the illegitimately fertilised flowers, the proportion 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".]