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REFERRING to records of the history of cultivated Cineraria, I found (1) that considerable sports, or seedlings presenting notable and striking variations, arose in the early days of the “improvement” of the Cineraria; (2) that there is evidence that the improved varieties were of hybrid origin. I concluded, therefore, that Mr. Dyer's statement that our Cinerarias have been derived from C. cruenta “by the gradual accumulation of small variations” was misleading in two respects. As we have now had the benefit of a fuller statement of Mr. Dyer's case, I ask leave to explain why it is that I still hold to my original conclusion.
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BATESON, W. The Origin of the Cultivated Cineraria. Nature 52, 103–104 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052103a0
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