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CHAPTER V.. Illegitimate Offspring of Heterostyled Plants.

The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species · Charles Darwin — chapter 4 of 23 · ~86 words · public domain

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ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING OF HETEROSTYLED PLANTS.

Illegitimate offspring from all three forms of Lythrum salicaria.--Their dwarfed stature and sterility, some utterly barren, some fertile.--Oxalis, transmission of form to the legitimate and illegitimate seedlings.--Primula Sinensis, illegitimate offspring in some degree dwarfed and infertile.--Equal-styled varieties of P. Sinensis, auricula, farinosa, and elatior.--P. vulgaris, red- flowered variety, illegitimate seedlings sterile.--P. veris, illegitimate plants raised during several successive generations, their dwarfed stature and sterility.--Equal-styled varieties of P. veris.--Transmission of form by Pulmonaria and Polygonum.--Concluding remarks.--Close parallelism between illegitimate fertilisation and hybridism.

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