The peloricform is stated to be transmitted by seed.
In the case of peloric aconites[234] the lateral and sometimes the inferior coloured sepals assume the hooded form usually peculiar to the upper sepal only, the number of the petals or nectaries being correspondingly increased.
It must, however, be remarked that in some of the flowers recorded as peloric there is no indication as to which form of peloria the case should be referred to.
Mr. Darwin[240] raised sixteen seedling plants of a peloric Antirrhinum, artificially fertilised by its own pollen, all of which were as perfectly peloric as the parent plant.
Balsams become peloric by the augmentation in the number of spurs.
This is also obvious in peloric flowers of the Calceolaria.
Peloric flowers of Papilionaceæ in this way are indistinguishable from those of Rosaceæ.
Hence, says Mr. Darwin, there is in these flowers "a strong latent tendency to become peloric, and there is also a still greater tendency in all peloric plants to reacquire their normal irregular structure.
The peloric toad-flax is nothing new; the [493] experiment was only a repetition of what presumably takes place often within the same species.
The peloric form in this case appeared at once, but was not isolated, and was left free to visiting insects, which of course crossed it with the surrounding varieties.
The peloric toad-flaxes are, as a rule, found surrounded by the normal type, but without intergrading forms.
The ground for this choice lies simply in the fact that the peloric toad-flax is known to have originated from the ordinary type at different times and in different countries, under more or less divergent conditions.
Peloric flowers are terminal in some cases, but occur in the lower parts of the flower-spikes in others.
If such links had ordinarily been produced previous to the purely peloric state they would no doubt have been observed from time to time.
And as they are the ancestors of the first closely observed case of peloric mutation, [471] it seems worth while to give some details regarding their fertilization.
In the case of the peloric toad-flax the mutations are so numerous that they seem to be quite regular.
Three different individuals of my original race showed a tendency to producepeloric mutations, and they did so in a number of their seeds, exactly as the mutations of the evening-primroses were repeated nearly every year.
I chose some plants of the normal type with one or two peloric flowers besides the bilabiate majority which I found on a locality in the neighborhood of Hilversum in Holland.
The step from the ordinary toad-flax to the peloric form is short, and it appears as if it might be produced by slow conversion.
This refers to the peloric race of the common snapdragon, or Antirrhinum majus of our gardens.
I believe there is a peloric and common variety of Tropaeolum, and a peloric or upright and common variation of some species of Gloxinia, and the medial peloric flowers of Pelargonium, and probably others unknown to me.
This might also be tested by trying peloric and common pollen on stigma of a distinct species, and conversely.
I have insisted of peloricflowers being so often terminal.
If you have time, I think experiments on any peloricflowers would be useful.
I have now got one seedling from many crosses of a peloric Pelargonium bypeloric pollen; I have two or three seedlings from a peloric flower by pollen of regular flower.
On the same principle it would be well to test peloric flowers with their own pollen, and with pollen of regular flowers, and try pollen of peloric on regular flowers--seeds being counted in each case.
Only once I succeeded in raising a plant from a peloric flower fertilised by pollen from a peloric flower borne by another variety; but the plant, it may be added, presented nothing particular in its structure.
In his discussion on some curious peloric calceolarias, quoted in 'Journal of Horticulture,' Feb.
I likewise made many vain attempts, but sometimes succeeded in fertilising them with pollen from a normal flower of another variety; and conversely I several times fertilised ordinary flowers with peloric pollen.
The peloric flowers of Corydalis solida, according to Godron,[413] are barren; whilst those of Gloxinia are well known to yield plenty of seed.
Naudin[159] obtained the same result from crossing a peloric Linaria with the common form.
That this papilla is a rudiment of a stamen was well shown by its various degrees of development in crossed plants between the common and peloric Antirrhinum.
Hence we are led to look at the peloric flowers of Pelargonium as having probably reverted to the state of some primordial form, the progenitor of the three closely related genera of Pelargonium, Geranium, and Erodium.
Lastly, Linaria produces two kinds ofpeloric flowers, one having simple petals, and the other having them all spurred.
Hence it appears to me probable that the progenitor of the genus Antirrhinum must at some remote epoch have included five stamens and borne flowers in some degree resembling those now produced by the peloric form.
Moquin-Tandon has remarked that the flowers which stand on the summit of the main stem or of a lateral branch are more liable to become peloricthan those on the sides (26/13.
Hence we may look at the peloric flowers of Pelargonium as having reverted to the state of some primordial form, the progenitor of the three closely related genera of Pelargonium, Geranium, and Erodium.
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