Column 1: Form. Column 2: Average number of seeds per capsule. Column 3: Maximum number in any one capsule. Column 4: Minimum number in any one capsule.
Long-styled : 93 : 159 : No record was kept as all very poor capsules were rejected. Mid-styled : 130 : 151 : No record was kept as all very poor capsules were rejected. Short-styled : 83.5 : 112 : No record was kept as all very poor capsules were rejected.
TABLE 5.30. Continued.
CLASS 1 AND CLASS 2.--ILLEGITIMATE PLANTS RAISED FROM LONG-STYLED PARENTS FERTILISED WITH POLLEN FROM OWN-FORM MID-LENGTH OR SHORTEST STAMENS.
Column 1: Number (name) of plant. Column 2: Form. Column 3: Average number of seeds per capsule. Column 4: Maximum number of seeds in any one capsule. Column 5: Minimum number of seeds in any one capsule. Column 6: Average number of seeds, expressed as the percentage of the normal standard.
1 : Long-styled : 0 : 0 : 0 : 0. 2 : Long-styled : 4.5 : ? : 0 : 5. 3 : Long-styled : 4.5 : ? : 0 : 5. 4 : Long-styled : 4.5 : ? : 0 : 5. 5 : Long-styled : 0 or 1 : 2 : 0 : 0 or 1. 6 : Long-styled : 0 : 0 : 0 : 0. 7 : Long-styled : 36.1 : 47 : 22 : 39. 8 : Long-styled : 41.1 : 73 : 11 : 44. 9 : Long-styled : 57.1 : 86 : 23 : 61. 10 : Long-styled : 44.2 : 69 : 25 : 47.
CLASS 3. ILLEGITIMATE PLANTS RAISED FROM SHORT-STYLED PARENTS FERTILISED WITH POLLEN FROM OWN-FORM SHORTEST STAMENS.
14 : Short-styled : 28.3 : 51 : 11 : 33. 15 : Short-styled : 32.6 : 49 : 20 : 38. 16 : Short-styled : 77.8 : 97 : 60 : 94. 17 : Long-styled : 76.3 : 88 : 57 : 82.
CLASS 4. ILLEGITIMATE PLANTS RAISED FROM MID-STYLED PARENTS FERTILISED WITH POLLEN FROM OWN-FORM LONGEST STAMENS.
18 : Mid-styled : 102.6 : 131 : 63 : 80. 19 : Mid-styled : 73.4 : 87 : 64 : 56. 20 : Long-styled : 69.6 : 83 : 52 : 75.
CLASS 5. ILLEGITIMATE PLANTS RAISED FROM SHORT-STYLED PARENTS FERTILISED WITH POLLEN FROM THE MID-LENGTH STAMENS OF THE LONG-STYLED FORM.
21 : Short-styled : 43.0 : 63 : 26 : 52. 22 : Short-styled : 100.5 : 123 : 86 : 121. 23 : Short-styled : 113.5 : 123 : 93 : 136. 24 : Long-styled : 82.0 : 120 : 67 : 88. 25 : Long-styled : 122.5 : 149 : 84 : 131.
CLASS 6. ILLEGITIMATE PLANTS RAISED FROM MID-STYLED PARENTS FERTILISED WITH POLLEN FROM THE SHORTEST STAMENS OF THE LONG-STYLED FORM.
26 : Mid-styled : 86.0 : 109 : 61 : 66. 27 : Mid-styled : 99.4 : 122 : 53 : 76. 28 : Mid-styled : 89.0 : 119 : 69 : 68. 29 : Long-styled : 100.0 : 121 : 77 : 107. 30 : Long-styled : 94.0 : 106 : 66 : 101. 31 : Long-styled : 90.6 : 97 : 79 : 98.
CLASS 7. ILLEGITIMATE PLANTS RAISED FROM MID-STYLED PARENTS FERTILISED WITH POLLEN FROM THE LONGEST STAMENS OF THE SHORT-STYLED FORM.
32 : Mid-styled : 127.2 : 144 : 96 : 98. 33 : Short-styled : 113.9 : 137 : 90 : 137.
The lessened fertility of most of these illegitimate plants is in many respects a highly remarkable phenomenon. Thirty-three plants in the seven classes were subjected to various trials, and the seeds carefully counted. Some of them were artificially fertilised, but the far greater number were freely fertilised (and this is the better and natural plan) through the agency of insects, by other illegitimate plants. In the right hand, or percentage column, in Table 5.30, a wide difference in fertility between the plants in the first four and the last three classes may be perceived. In the first four classes the plants are descended from the three forms illegitimately fertilised with pollen taken from the same form, but only rarely from the same plant. It is necessary to observe this latter circumstance; for, as I have elsewhere shown, most plants, when fertilised with their own pollen, or that from the same plant, are in some degree sterile, and the seedlings raised from such unions are likewise in some degree sterile, dwarfed, and feeble. (5/3. 'The Effects of Cross and Self- fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom' 1876.) None of the nineteen illegitimate plants in the first four classes were completely fertile; one, however, was nearly so, yielding 96 per cent of the proper number of seeds.