PALESTINE WILD PEA WITH COMMERCIAL TYPES. 431 
The following is a brief history of the cross :— 
( The cross gave one seed only. This was round, greenish in 
colour, and with no black hilum. 
The hybrid plant grew about 2 feet in height, was of normal 
growth and not umbellate, the foliage was rather small with some 
UN J leaflets serrated, the colour of the blooms was bi-coloured and not 
self-coloured (the standards being pink with wings dark purple). 
This plant produced five seeds, which were much like those of the 
parental Palestine seeds in colour, but varied in size. 
No fasciation in stem. 
The five seeds were sown and all germinated, and grew  sufh- 
ciently to show that they varied in character. Four of them, 
however, did not produce a single seed, and only one could be con- 
F. 4 tinued beyond F... The plant which matured was of fairly strong 
habit of growth, not umbellate, the leaflets had very little trace 
of serration, and the blooms were bi-coloured. No fasciation in 
| stem, The seeds were small, brown mottled, with black hilum. 
The seeds from this plant were sown the next year, the new types Nos. 1, 
3. 4, and 5 appearing in F; and Nos. 2 and 6 in F.. 
New type No. 1. (Pl. 15. fig. 4G.) 
A dark bi-coloured flowering form of the parental umbellate type, appear- 
ing in Fy. Previously, so far as I am aware, this dark-flowered umbellate 
form did not exist, the only umbellate forms hitherto known being (1) a 
white-flowered form (Pisum arvense umbellatum, P1. 15. fig. 4 H), and (2) : 
rose- and white-flowered form (Pisum arvense umbellatum, Pl. 15. fig. 4 l). 
The seeds of this new type (Pl. 17. fig. 13) also differed from those of the 
parental umbellate form (Pl. 17. fig. 10), and of the rose- and white- 
umbellate form (Pl. 17. fig. 15). It will be noticed that the seeds of this 
new type are small and have a blaek hilum. 
Apart from the eolour of the blooms and the seed, the hybrid much 
resembles the parental umbellate form. 
New type No. 2. (PI. 16. fig. 5.) 
This is the nearest approach in general appearance I could find to an 
umbellate form of the Palestine Pea (although the flowers were white), and 
appeared in F, from New type No. 1. It was much weaker in growth than 
the parental umbellate form. The chief characters were as follows :— 
Flowers white. 
No serration in the leaflets. 
No colour in axils. 
Seeds smaller than the parental umbellate or crown-flowered Pea, but 
with a black hilum. (PI. 17. fig. 16.) 
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