208 Observation of the Origin of Varieties, 



So long as it is not certain whether a Linaria vulgaris 

 apeloria exists, I propose to call the plants with this power 

 provisionally L. vulgaris heniipeloria (Fig. 41). This 

 name of course refers hoth to those plants on which iso- 

 lated peloric flowers have been observed, and to their 

 offspring. 



Cases of true Peloria (Fig. 39) are also occasionally 

 seen in this country in the wild condition. A few local- 

 ities for it are recorded in the Floras. I myself had 

 some plants from a spot near Zandvoort in 1874, but 

 since then it has not been found there again. Only one 

 new locality has since become known to me, and this 

 was near Oldenzaal (1896). It is of course not known 

 whether the Peloria occurred spontaneously in these var- 

 ious localities and had not been introduced from else- 

 where, but its high degree of infertility makes the likeli- 

 hood of such an introduction very remote. 



For the purposes of my experiment I transplanted 

 some plants from the country into my garden in the 

 summer of 1886. I selected plants with occasional pel- 

 oric flowers and freed their roots as carefully as possible 

 of fragments of roots whose connection with the hemi- 

 peloric plants was not absolutely certain. The plants came 

 from Gooiland. I also collected, at the same time, the 

 Linaria vulgaris with Catacorolla,^ and obtained the 

 three-spurred variety (see § 8, p. 87) from Dr. Wakker. 

 These three forms flowered together in the following 

 summer in my garden. 



In 1888 I sowed the seeds which I had collected in 

 1887, to produce the second generation, but the plants 

 did not flower till 1889 and again in 1890. In the first 

 year a single peloric flower was produced amongst in- 



^ See Chapter TT of this part, §4, p. 31. 



