7 6 
F. Keeble, Miss C. Pellew and W. N. Jones. 
ground colour but not colour in spot- or stripe-areas may provide a 
clue to the behaviour of such striped types (Darwin, loc. cit., p. 45, 
Vol. 2 and Bateson (1909), p. 99) as are known to produce, 
occasionally, self-coloured offspring. 
TABLES I. and II. 
Showing inheritance of colour and marking of petals in the 
Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea). 
Table I.— All Parents Self-Fertilised. 
Parents. 
F,. 
Probable Gametic 
Constitution of Parents 
Plant. 
Characters. 
Characters. 
Number of 
Plants. 
Pelorie 
Factor. 
Ground 
Colour. 
Darkening 
Factors. 
Dominant 
White 
Factors. 
E 
White with yellow 
spots 
All white with yellow’ spots 
13 
Pp 
mm 
dd 
ww 
D 
White with red 
spots 
13 white (=11 red spots 
+1 brown spot 
+ 1 yellow spot) 
-f 1 magenta (=1 red spot) 
= 12 red spots+ 2 brown or yellow 
14 
Pp 
Mm 
dd 
Ww 
F 
White with red 
spots 
4 white-)-1 magenta (rogue)* 
=5 red spots 
5 
PP 
MM 
... 
Ww 
A 
Purple—deep 
magenta with red 
spots 
5 white (=5 brown spots) 
=17 red spots+ 5 brown 
22 
PP 
Mm 
Dd 
WW 
B 
White with purple 
flush and red spots 
6 white (=2 red spots 
+ 2 brown spots 
+ 2 yellow spots) 
+ 5 magenta j ( =6 red spots) 
=8 red spots-)-4 brown or yellow 
12 
PP 
? 
p 
? 
♦Since all the other evidence points to peloria being recessive, this plant, which is 
non-peloric, is to be regarded as a rogue. 
