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IN a culture of a particular strain of O. biennis, L., a series of forms has been observed which constitute a parallel series to the. well-known mutants from O. Larnarckiana, Ser. O. biennis, unlike O. Lamarckiana, has small flowers and a short style, rendering the flowers rather strictly self-pollinating. The particular race in question I received from the Madrid Botanical Garden. It has typical O. biennis flowers, as mentioned above, but the foliage closely resembles that of O. Lamarckiana. These plants were grown, to the number of 131 this year, at the John Innes Horticultural Institution, Merton, in connection with my other Oenothera cultures, which number in all more than 10,000 individuals.
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GATES, R. Parallel Mutations in Oenothera biennis. Nature 89, 659–660 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089659b0
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