212 Observation of the Origin of Varieties. 
they all flowered in the first year, 58 plants in all, of 
which 45 were clicotylous and 13 tricotylous. Amongst 
the dicotyls there were eleven plants, each of which bore 
one, two, or three peloric flowers, while in one case a 
peloric flower replaced a whole raceme. Amongst the 
tricotyls I did not find any such flowers, partly because 
the majority of these \vere removed by the middle of 
August; but there appeared amongst them one plant 
which bore peloric flowers exclusively on all of its stems 
and their branches. It bore no seed in spite of repeated 
careful pollination, partly with pollen from the neigh- 
boring plants ; it survived the winter and flowered freely 
in the following year, again producing exclusively peloric 
flowers. 
This experiment seemed to suggest that the Peloria 
arose from the hemipeloric parent in a proportion of 
about 1-2%. So in order to obtain closer knowledge of 
this proportion, I made a larger sowing in 1896 from 
the same lot of seed, and was able to plant out about 
1850 seedlings in pots. By the middle of July some 
wholly peloric individuals had appeared, which were 
promptly taken up and transferred to a remote part of 
the garden. The further examples of Peloria which 
appeared from time to time, were planted beside them. 
By the middle of August all healthy plants were in 
flower and were recorded. There were altogether 16 
totally peloric plants and 1759 with ordinary flowers, 
and here and there occasional peloric structures. This 
gives a total of 1775 plants which flowered, of which 1% 
(strictly speaking 0.9%) belonged to the new peloric 
variety. 
For the harvest the flowers of the best peloric plants 
were enclosed in parchment bags and each fertilized with 
