Before, however, feeling quite satisfied in regard even to this residuum of exceptions, one would wish to learn the subsequent fate of these aberrant seeds and how their offspring differed from that of their sisters. One only of them can I yet trace, viz. the green seed from _Telephone_ ♀ × _Buchsbaum_ ♂, which proved a veritable “green dominant.” As for the remainder, Tschermak promises in his first paper to watch them. But in his second paper the only passage I can find relating to them declares that perhaps some of the questionable cases he mentioned in his first paper “_are attributable to similar isolated anomalies in dominance; some proved themselves by subsequent cultivation to be cases of accidental self-fertilisation; others failed to germinate_[90].” I may warn those interested in these questions, that in estimating changes due to ripening, _dead_ seeds are not available. [90] “_Vielleicht sind einige der l.c. 507 bis 508 erwähnten fraglichen Fälle auf ähnliche vereinzelte Anomalien der Merkmalswerthigkeit zu beziehen; einige erwiesen sich allerdings beim Anbau als Producte ungewollter Selbstbefruchtung, andere keimten nicht._” _B. Seed-coats and shapes._ 1. _Seed-coats._ Professor Weldon lays some stress on the results obtained by Correns[91] in crossing a pea having green cotyledons and a thin almost colourless coat (_grüne späte Erfurter Folger-erbse_) with two purple-flowered varieties. The latter are what are known in England as “grey” peas, though the term grey is not generally appropriate. [91] Regarding this case I have to thank Professor Correns for a good deal of information which he kindly sent me in response to my inquiry. I am thus able to supplement the published account in some particulars. In these varieties the cotyledon-colour is yellow and the coats are usually highly coloured or orange-brown. In reciprocal crosses Correns found no change from the maternal seed-coat-colour or seed-shape. On sowing these peas he obtained plants bearing peas which, using the terminology of Mendel and others, he speaks of as the “first generation.” These peas varied in the colour of their seed-coats from an almost colourless form slightly tinged with green like the one parent to the orange-brown of the other parent. The seeds varied in this respect not only from plant to plant, but from pod to pod, and from seed to seed, as Professor Correns has informed me. The peas with more highly-coloured coats were sown and gave rise to plants with seeds showing the whole range of seed-coat-colours again.