Some long-styled and short-styled plants were now raised from purchased seeds, and flowers on both forms were legitimately crossed with pollen from a distinct plant; and other flowers on both forms were illegitimately fertilised with pollen from the flowers on the same plant. The seeds were sown on opposite sides of Pots 1 to 4 in Table 6/95; a single plant being left on each side. Several flowers on the illegitimate long-styled and short-styled plants described in the last paragraph, were also legitimately and illegitimately fertilised in the manner just described, and their seeds were sown in Pots 5 to 8 in the same table. As the two sets of seedlings did not differ in any essential manner, their measurements are given in a single table. I should add that the legitimate unions in both cases yielded, as might have been expected, many more seeds than the illegitimate unions. The seedlings whilst half-grown presented no difference in height on the two sides of the several pots. When fully grown they were measured to the tips of their longest leaves, and the result is given in Table 6/95. TABLE 6/95. Primula sinensis. Heights of plants measured in inches. Column 1: Number (Name) of Pot. Column 2: Plants from legitimately Crossed seeds. Column 3: Plants from illegitimately Self-fertilised seeds. Pot 1 : 8 2/8 : 8. From short-styled mother. 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.