Pot 2 : 7 4/8 : 8 5/8. From short-styled mother.
Pot 3 : 9 5/8 : 9 3/8. From long-styled mother.
Pot 4 : 8 4/8 : 8 2/8. From long-styled mother.
Pot 5 : 9 3/8 : 9. From illegitimate short-styled mother.
Pot 6 : 9 7/8 : 9 4/8. From illegitimate short-styled mother.
Pot 7 : 8 4/8 : 9 4/8. From illegitimate long-styled mother.
Pot 8 : 10 4/8 : 10. From illegitimate long-styled mother.
Total : 72.13 : 72.25.
In six out of the eight pots the legitimately crossed plants exceeded in height by a trifle the illegitimately self-fertilised plants; but the latter exceeded the former in two of the pots in a more strongly marked manner. The average height of the eight legitimately crossed plants is 9.01, and that of the eight illegitimately self-fertilised 9.03 inches, or as 100 to 100.2. The plants on the opposite sides produced, as far as could be judged by the eye, an equal number of flowers. I did not count the capsules or the seeds produced by them; but undoubtedly, judging from many previous observations, the plants derived from the legitimately crossed seeds would have been considerably more fertile than those from the illegitimately self-fertilised seeds. The crossed plants, as in the previous case, flowered before the self-fertilised plants in all the pots except in Pot 2, in which the two sides flowered simultaneously; and this early flowering may, perhaps, be considered as an advantage.
27. POLYGONEAE.—Fagopyrum esculentum.