. The Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . extremely rare cases in whichNature sometimes works, not in violation of her laws, but indeviation, so to speak, of her moBt common habits. Theseremarkable structures are indeed revelations, the interpretationof which ought not to be neglected. M. Moquin-Tandon, in hiB classification of vegetable monsto-sities, forms a class in which the deviation of the specific typeis connected with the form. These deviations are of two kinds :they are either changed from one organ into another, and thenthey constitute metamorphoses, or
. The Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . extremely rare cases in whichNature sometimes works, not in violation of her laws, but indeviation, so to speak, of her moBt common habits. Theseremarkable structures are indeed revelations, the interpretationof which ought not to be neglected. M. Moquin-Tandon, in hiB classification of vegetable monsto-sities, forms a class in which the deviation of the specific typeis connected with the form. These deviations are of two kinds :they are either changed from one organ into another, and thenthey constitute metamorphoses, or they are alterations which,being irregular, become deformations; or, being regular, con-stitute Pelorias. M. Van Oyens pelorias of the Calceolaria were produced bysome garden varieties of corymbosa, crossed first by pendula, theresulting varieties subsequently intermingled. An analogousform of peloria was seen in 1833 by M. de Chamisso, in theCalceolaria rugosa, and later by Guillemin. The specimen ofM. Van Oyen differs from these, chiefly by its great size, colour,. Rhenish wine-flask, much elongated, straight at both extremities,inflated at the middle, the part towards the summit being con-tracted like the neck of a bottle; the summit of the corollaitself was still further contracted, and tapered in the form of themouthpiece of a flute, where it split in two oval openings. Thecorolla, when opened, presented no trace of stamens, only thepistil of regular form was placed at its base, and had its stylecurved to one side. The colour is not less remarkable: on theordinary flowers of this variety of Calceolaria, the base is straw-colour, and there is a red tinge visible at the inside, the internalcuticle being coloured red; the inferior lip is coloured withlight red, but here it is the outer skin that is coloured. Now,in this monstrosity the base of the corolla presented at first ayellow zone; then a broad red band in the interior, proceedingfrom the coloured part of the internal s
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