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Oenothera acaulis 1867 Flowers set very badly & capsules, especially selfs, contained multitude of bad seed; so as difficult to decide which to reject, judging as well as I could,

10 crossed produced 5 pods, with average of 33.2 seed

12 self produced 8 pods, [do] [do] of 24.0 seed.

But it was plain that the crossed seeds were finer & larger than the selfs. — as shown by following weights

166 crossed seeds weighed 4.29 gr

195 self seeds weighed 4.26 gr

(May 17' All the crossed seedlings have done miserably. perhaps

Pot I all crossed died. Pot II. only 1 crossed alive & only 2 selfs.

Pot. III all crossed died. Pot IV. Planted under sand crossed & selfs equally alive.)

(Aug. 24. 1868 In neither of 2 Pots (ie Pot II. & IV) which have survived case any difference be perceived in vigour of Plants: but the flower-stems were not measured — in Pot II. self- flowered first in Pot IV crossed flowered first)

(May 28' 1869. Pot. IV. was kept & nothing done to it, & now the self have an enormous advantage over the crossed. & have flowered first.)