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Show RESEDA L U'fEA. CHAP. IV. 118 1 number of the self-fertilised . and an equa . h' weighed 90 · 5 ounces ' to 21 ; and this is an as ton1s mg only 19 ounces, or as 100 difference. TABLE XXXV. Reseda l'utea, in pots. :---- Crossed Plants. ScH-fcrtiliscd Plants. No. of Pot. --- - Inches. ,- lnchef). 21 12~ I. 14§ 1o 19 ~ 11 ~ 7 15 ~ 15 ~ 19g - -- -. - 12 ~ 1- II. 20~ 17 ti 16 ~ 23~ 16 ~ 17 ~ V~ji 20~ 13 ~ ---- --- - I - III. 16~ 14a 17 ~ 19 ~ 16§ 20~ 10 7 ~ 10 17 ~ - IV. 22k 9 19 11 ~ 18~ 11 16 a 16 19 § 16 :a - v. 25§ 14 ~ 22 1G 8~ 1 4~ 14g 14 2 - - - Total in inches. 412·25 350·86 - sown in two adjoining Seeds of the same two lots were also nt crossed plants in rows in the open grou~d. There wore. twe ylants in the other the one row and thuty-two solf-fertlli.scd ~ b t not so un- row so that. the experiment was no t quit o :t'· nr ·' u w wore not fair 'a s it at first appears, for tho p 1a ~t s I· n the sam'the reoa ch other's crowded so much as serw· us1 y to Interfere W.d I f both rows. growth, and tho ground was bare on the outsi e o CHAP. IV. RESEDA ODORATA. 119 These plants were better nourished than those in the pots and grew to a greater height. The eight tallest plants in each row were measured in the same manner as before, with the following result:- TABLE XXXVI. Reseda lu tea, growing in the open grouncl. Crossed. Plants. Self-fertilised Plants. -- Inches. 1ncbes. 28 3sa 27 ~ 2:3 27 ~ 2 1 ~ 28S 20~ 29~ 21 ~ 26~ 22 26 ~ 2 1 ~ 00k 2q 224:•75 185·13 The average height of tho crossed plants, whilst in fuJI flower, was here 28 · 09, and that of the self-fertilised 23 ·14 inches ; or as 100 to 82. It is a singular fact that the tallest plant in the two rows, was one of the self-fertilised. The self-fertilised plants had smaller and paler green leaves than the crossed. All the plants in the two rows wore afterwards cut down and weighed. The twenty crossed pl~:tnts weighed 65 ounces, and twenty self-fertilised (by calculation from the actual weight of the thirty-two selffertilised plants) weighed 26 · ~5 ounces ; or as 100 to 40. Therefore the crossed plants did not exceed in weight the self-fertilised plants in nearly so great a degree as those growing in the pots, owing probably to the latter having been subjected to more severe mutual competition. On the other hand, they exceeded the self-fertilised in height in a slightly greater degree. RESEDA ODORATA. Plants of the common mignonette were raised from purchased seed, and several of thorn were placed under separate nets. Of these some became loaded with spontaneously self-fertilised capsules; others produced a few, and others not a single one. It must not be supposed that these latter plants produced no seed |
