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PELORIA IN PLANTS. 



E. SNELGROVE, B.A. 



The accompanying figures (from photographs), show a Foxglove 

 grown in a Sheffield garden during the past summer. The re- 

 semblance of the top flower to a Campanula is very striking, so 

 much so that people who saw it growing, described it as such. 



Peloria in Foxglove. 



Two facts are plainly brought out in the photographs : — 

 (i) that the top flower, unlike the o hers, is regular ; (2) that 

 it is opening as early as the lowest flowers of the raceme. 



The occurrence of this kind of thing, viz., a regular flower 

 p:oduced on a plant that normally bears irregular flowers, is 

 known as peloria. The name explains nothing, for it only 



