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pany various deviations from the ordinary form and 

 arrangement of parts. 



In cases where an habitually irregular flower becomes 

 regular, the change in form is frequently associated 

 with an alteration in direction both of the flower as a 

 whole and, to a greater or less extent, of its indi- 

 vidual members, for instance of Glo.nnia, the normal 

 flowers of which are irregular and pendent, there is 

 now in common cultivation a peloriate race in which 

 the flowers are regular in form and erect in position. 



Fig. 108. Flower of normal Gloxinia. 



Fio. 109. Flower of Qloxinia, erect and regular (regular Peloria). 



Fig. 108 shows the usual irregular form of Glo.n'tu'a^ 

 with which may be contrasted figs. 100, 110 and 111. 



