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Linum grandiflorum (Conclusions)

Flowers on plants in garden were fertilised between July 18th & Oct Aug' 1 1881. — Afterward the weather was wet & cold & very unfavourable for the setting of the Pods.

Several short-styled plants were carefully protected from insects & on successive days 25 flowers were illegitimately fert. with pollen from the shorter stamens of other distinct short-styled plants in a distinct group of short-styled plants. Therefore they had though illegitimately fertilised all the advantages derived from cross-fertilisation—

These 25 flowers yielded only 3 pods so that 12 per cent yielded pods of which one contained no good seeds; & the other 2 fl. yielded 6 & 1 good seed i.e. 8 per cent yielded good seed. — i.e on average 3.5 seed per pod. —

At the the same times 15 flowers on short-styled plant were legitimately fert. with pollen from long-styled.

These yielded no less than 14 pods, i.e. 98 per cent but of these 5 contained no seeds, appearing good. The 9 ie 60 per cent which contained q good or nearly a quite or moderately good seeds in æ

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appearance, contained as here shown, ie on an average per pod 8.66 seeds.

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(March. 20' 1882. seeds put on damp sand — one of the illegitimate & perhaps 2 utterly bad & worthless ought not to be counted.)

March 31', 6 of the Legitimates have germinated well — not 1 of Illegitimate