ON BUD-VARIATION, AND ON CERTAIN ANOMALOUS MODES OF REPRODUCTION AND VARIATION. BUD-VARIATION IN THE PEACH, PLUM, CHERRY, VINE, GOOSEBERRY, CURRANT, AND BANANA, AS SHOWN BY THE MODIFIED FRUIT--IN FLOWERS: CAMELLIAS, AZALEAS, CHRYSANTHEMUMS, ROSES, ETC.--ON THE RUNNING OF THE COLOUR IN CARNATIONS --BUD-VARIATIONS IN LEAVES--VARIATIONS BY SUCKERS, TUBERS, AND BULBS--ON THE BREAKING OF TULIPS--BUD-VARIATIONS GRADUATE INTO CHANGES CONSEQUENT ON CHANGED CONDITIONS OF LIFE--GRAFT-HYBRIDS--ON THE SEGREGATION OF THE PARENTAL CHARACTERS IN SEMINAL HYBRIDS BY BUD-VARIATION--ON THE DIRECT OR IMMEDIATE ACTION OF FOREIGN POLLEN ON THE MOTHER-PLANT--ON THE EFFECTS OF A PREVIOUS IMPREGNATION ON THE SUBSEQUENT OFFSPRING OF FEMALE ANIMALS-- CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY. CHAPTER 1.XII. INHERITANCE. WONDERFUL NATURE OF INHERITANCE--PEDIGREES OF OUR DOMESTICATED ANIMALS-- INHERITANCE NOT DUE TO CHANCE--TRIFLING CHARACTERS INHERITED--DISEASES INHERITED--PECULIARITIES IN THE EYE INHERITED--DISEASES IN THE HORSE-- LONGEVITY AND VIGOUR--ASYMMETRICAL DEVIATIONS OF STRUCTURE--POLYDACTYLISM AND REGROWTH OF SUPERNUMERARY DIGITS AFTER AMPUTATION--CASES OF SEVERAL CHILDREN SIMILARLY AFFECTED FROM NON-AFFECTED PARENTS--WEAK AND FLUCTUATING INHERITANCE: IN WEEPING TREES, IN DWARFNESS, COLOUR OF FRUIT AND FLOWERS-- COLOUR OF HORSES--NON-INHERITANCE IN CERTAIN CASES--INHERITANCE OF STRUCTURE AND HABITS OVERBORNE BY HOSTILE CONDITIONS OF LIFE, BY INCESSANTLY RECURRING VARIABILITY, AND BY REVERSION--CONCLUSION. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. FIGURE. 1. DUN DEVONSHIRE PONY, WITH SHOULDER, SPINAL, AND LEG STRIPES. 2. HEAD OF JAPAN OR MASKED PIG. 3. HEAD OF WILD BOAR, AND OF "GOLDEN DAYS," A PIG OF THE YORKSHIRE LARGE BREED. 4. OLD IRISH PIG WITH JAW-APPENDAGES. 5. HALF-LOP RABBIT. 6. SKULL OF WILD RABBIT. 7. SKULL OF LARGE LOP-EARED RABBIT. 8. PART OF ZYGOMATIC ARCH, SHOWING THE PROJECTING END OF THE MALAR BONE OF THE AUDITORY MEATUS, OF RABBITS. 9. POSTERIOR END OF SKULL, SHOWING THE INTER-PARIETAL BONE, OF RABBITS. 10. OCCIPITAL FORAMEN OF RABBITS. 11. SKULL OF HALF-LOP RABBIT. 12. ATLAS VERTEBRAE OF RABBITS. 13. THIRD CERVICAL VERTEBRAE OF RABBITS. 14. DORSAL VERTEBRAE, FROM SIXTH TO TENTH INCLUSIVE, OF RABBITS. 15. TERMINAL BONE OF STERNUM OF RABBITS. 16. ACROMION OF SCAPULA OF RABBITS. 17. THE ROCK-PIGEON, OR COLUMBA LIVIA. 18. ENGLISH POUTER. 19. ENGLISH CARRIER. 20. ENGLISH BARB. 21. ENGLISH FANTAIL. 22. AFRICAN OWL. 23. SHORT-FACED ENGLISH TUMBLER. 24. SKULLS OF PIGEONS, VIEWED LATERALLY. 25. LOWER JAWS OF PIGEONS, SEEN FROM ABOVE. 26. SKULL OF RUNT, SEEN FROM ABOVE. 27. LATERAL VIEW OF JAWS OF PIGEONS. 28. SCAPULAE OF PIGEONS. 29. FURCULA OF PIGEONS. 30. SPANISH FOWL. 31. HAMBURGH FOWL. 32. POLISH FOWL. 33. OCCIPITAL FORAMEN OF THE SKULLS OF FOWLS. 34. SKULLS OF FOWLS, VIEWED FROM ABOVE, A LITTLE OBLIQUELY. 35. LONGITUDINAL SECTIONS OF SKULLS OF FOWLS, VIEWED LATERALLY.