250 MendeVs Laws of Alternative Inheritance in Peas 
using Mendel's categories without careful examination. The statement that the 
seeds of Daisy and Early Morn are wrinkled and irregular, while those of 
Lightning ai-e fairly smooth and rounded, is perfectly true ; but if made in this 
form, without further explanation, it suggests a likeness between Daisy and Early 
Morn which does not exist. So far as the shape of Early Morn exhibits a 
reversion to any of its known ancestors, the reversion is directly to the most 
wrinkled type of the original Telegraph. In sending me the sample I have 
examined, Messrs Carter wrote of Early Morn : "You will clearly see the trace of 
" the white Pea which was one of its parents." The analysis of the colour- 
variations, given in Table IV., abundantly confirms Messrs Carter's statement: 
the majority of seeds are green; but seeds of intermediate colour, and piebald 
seeds, do occur with quite sensible frequency. 
TABLE IV. 
Frequency of Colour Variation. 
Eace 
Colour 1 
Colour 2 
Colour 3 
Colour 4 
Colour 5 
Colour 6 
Piebald 
Total 
Telegraph 
354 
95 
47 
10 
4 
2 
64 
576 
Pride of the Market 
447 
76 
19 
2 
2 
1 
55 
602 
Stratagem 
200 
367 
154 
16 
5 
0 
40 
602 
Telephone (Carter) . . . 
191 
289 
195 
59 
38 
38 
133 
943 
„ (Sutton)... 
13 
83 
112 
32 
15 
13 
43 
311 
„ (Vilmorin) 
29 
69 
69 
23 
3 
2 
5 
200 
Duke of Albany 
26 
70 
121 
53 
11 
20 
27 
328 
Daisy 
78 
175 
27 
7 
0 
0 
17 
304 
Early Morn 
267 
239 
81 
2 
1 
1 
9 
600 
IV. — Mendel's Law of Segregation. 
The history of the Telephone group of Peas is clearly inconsistent with the 
universal validity of Mendel's laws of dominance and segregation. The hybrid 
Telegraph produced seeds of various colours at the time of its origin, and now, 
more than five-and-twenty years after its introduction, it does so still. From the 
variable offspring of this hybrid races have been produced by selection, which bear 
either yellow-green seeds of fairly constant character {Stratagem) or a mixture 
of self-coloured and conspicuously piebald seeds, the self-coloured seeds presenting 
every conceivable colour between deep green and intense orange-yellow {Telephone). 
These races are many generations removed from their common hybrid ancestor, 
and it may be suggested that phenomena such as those described by Mendel could 
have been observed in the earlier generations. No decisive answer to such a 
suggestion can now be obtained ; but the hybrids Daisy and Early Morn are both 
little removed from their cross-fertilised ancestor ; in their present selected form 
both exhibit characters which should, on Mendel's view, be recessive, and should 
therefore produce invariably recessive offspring, while in fact their offspring is 
variable. 
