316 Nutrition and Selection. 
We shall here confine ourselves to true anomalies, 
that is, to semi-latent characters, 1 and will start with 
some instances of plants which are propagated vegeta- 
tively. First let us look at the continued growth at the 
top of the inflorescence of the white clover (Fig. 60), an 
anomaly which is fairly rare in this region, but which 
has been intensified considerably by favorable cultivation 
in my garden. Fig. 60 affords instances of this anomaly 
selected from a vast number of available cases. 2 Elonga- 
tion of an inflorescence into an ear-shaped peduncle, pro- 
liferation or formation of two inflorescences, one above 
the other, on the same stem, and the appearance of small 
clusters in the place of the individual flowers accompanied 
by an increase of the bracts are some of the more impor- 
tant instances. 
In the summer of 1890 I found near Hilversum a 
specimen which bore a single flower on the elongated 
axis of one of its inflorescences. I transplanted it to 
my garden, sowed the seeds in the following year and 
obtained a few "perumbellate" inflorescences. Again 
I collected the best seeds and sowed them in 1891. When 
the plants flowered about 2% of the several thousands 
of inflorescences had proliferated, most of them belonged 
to the type shown in Fig. 60 B, others to the rarer types 
A, C and D. I then selected the best plant, isolated it 
completely, and made certain that all the branches really 
belonged to it. After this I divided it, planted out the 
parts, and let them grow as strong as possible. In this 
L The methods of cultivation suitable for producing pure white 
flowers on colored varieties of Syringa in winter, and the well-known 
blue coloration in the Hortensias are widely different. (See VERLOT, 
loc. cit., pp. 60-61). 
! The anomalies in question have long since been dealt with in 
the literature of the subject, and have been collated by PENZIG, in 
Tcr atologie, I, p. 387. 
