﻿468 
  Mutations 
  

  

  have 
  never 
  been 
  seen 
  in 
  the 
  wild 
  state. 
  The 
  

   only 
  writer 
  who 
  succeeded 
  in 
  sowing 
  seeds 
  of 
  

   the 
  peloric 
  variety 
  was 
  Wildenow 
  and 
  he 
  got 
  

   only 
  very 
  few 
  seedlings. 
  But 
  even 
  in 
  artificial 
  

   pollination 
  the 
  result 
  is 
  the 
  same, 
  the 
  anthers 
  

   seeming 
  to 
  be 
  seriously 
  affected 
  by 
  the 
  change. 
  

   I 
  tried 
  both 
  self-fertilization 
  and 
  cross-pollina- 
  

   tion, 
  and 
  only 
  with 
  utmost 
  care 
  did 
  I 
  succeed 
  

   in 
  saving 
  barely 
  a 
  hundred 
  seeds. 
  In 
  order 
  

   to 
  obtain 
  them 
  I 
  was 
  compelled 
  to 
  operate 
  on 
  

   more 
  than 
  a 
  thousand 
  flowers 
  on 
  about 
  a 
  dozen 
  

   peloric 
  plants. 
  

  

  The 
  variety 
  being 
  wholly 
  barren 
  in 
  nature, 
  

   the 
  assumption 
  that 
  the 
  plants 
  in 
  the 
  different 
  

   recorded 
  localities 
  might 
  have 
  a 
  common 
  origin 
  

   is 
  at 
  once 
  excluded. 
  There 
  must 
  have 
  been 
  at 
  

   least 
  nearly 
  as 
  many 
  mutations 
  as 
  localities. 
  

   This 
  strengthens 
  the 
  hope 
  of 
  seeing 
  such 
  a 
  mu- 
  

   tation 
  happen 
  in 
  one's 
  own 
  garden. 
  It 
  should 
  

   also 
  be 
  remembered 
  that 
  peloric 
  flowers 
  are 
  

   known 
  to 
  have 
  originated 
  in 
  quite 
  a 
  number 
  

   of 
  different 
  species 
  of 
  Linaria, 
  and 
  also 
  with 
  

   many 
  of 
  the 
  allied 
  species 
  within 
  the 
  range 
  of 
  

   the 
  Labiatiflorae. 
  

  

  I 
  will 
  now 
  give 
  the 
  description 
  of 
  my 
  own 
  ex- 
  

   periment. 
  Of 
  course 
  this 
  did 
  not 
  give 
  the 
  ex- 
  

   pected 
  result 
  in 
  the 
  first 
  year. 
  On 
  the 
  contrary, 
  

   it 
  was 
  only 
  after 
  eight 
  years' 
  work 
  that 
  I 
  had 
  

   the 
  good 
  fortune 
  of 
  observing 
  the 
  mutation. 
  

  

  