It certainly at first appears a highly remarkable fact that the same female butterfly should have the power of producing at the same time three distinct female forms and a male; and that an hermaphrodite plant should produce from the same seed-capsule three distinct hermaphrodite forms, bearing three different kinds of females and three or even six different kinds of males.
Hasieran, eman ere, gauza nabarmena ematen du tximeleta eme berak aldi berean hiru forma eme eta ar bat sortzeko ahalmena izateak eta landare hermafrodita batek fruitu beraren hazietatik hiru forma hermafrodita ezberdin sortzeak, hiru eme mota diferente eta hiru, edo sei ere, ar mota diferente daramatzatenak.