So gering auch der Erfolg dieses Versuches für die Feststellung der Zahlenverhältnisse sein mag, in welchen die verschiedenen Formen vorkamen, so bietet er doch anderseits den Fall einer merkwürdigen Farbenwandlung an den Blüthen und Samen der Hybriden dar.
As small as this experiment’s success may be for the determination of the numerical proportions in which the various forms occurred, it does on the other hand present the case of a noteworthy colour change in the flowers and seeds of the hybrids.
success = Erfolg See p. 7, s. 9.
proportions = Verhältnisse See p. 3, s. 8.
forms = Formen See p. 3, s. 8.
noteworthy = merkwürdig Bateson and Sherwood translate “remarkable”. In contemporary German, this adjective has a strong connotation of designating something strange or weird, which it usually did not have in nineteenth-century German; see Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Deutsches Wörterbuch, online-edition, s.v. “merkwürdig” (1883).