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From the angular yellow seeds 96 resulting plants bore seed, of which:

28 had only angular yellow seeds aB
68 angular yellow and green seeds aBb.

From 108 round green seeds 102 resulting plants fruited, of which:

35 had only round green seeds Ab
67 round and angular green seeds Aab.

The angular green seeds yielded 30 plants which bore seeds all of like character; they remained constant ab.

The offspring of the hybrids appeared therefore under nine different forms, some of them in very unequal numbers. When these are collected and co-ordinated we find:

38 plants with the sign AB
35 Ab
28 aB
30 ab
65 ABb
68 aBb
60 AaB
67 Aab
138 AaBb

The whole of the forms may be classed into three essentially different groups. The first embraces those with the signs AB, Ab, aB, and ab: they possess only constant characters and do not vary again in the next generation. Each of these forms is represented on the average thirty-three times. The second group embraces the signs ABb, aBb, AaB, Aab: these are constant in one character and hybrid in another, and vary in the next generation only as regards the hybrid character. Each of these appears on