me glabrous plants appeared, showing that the glabrous character,
though incapable of blending with and modifying the rough leaves, was
all the time latent in this family of plants. The numerous plants
formerly referred to, which I raised from reciprocal crosses between
the peloric and common Antirrhinum, offer a nearly parallel case; for
in the first generation all the plants resembled the common form, and
in the next generation, out of one hundred and thirty-seven plants, two
alone were in an intermediate condition, the others perfectly
resembling either the peloric or common form. Major Trevor Clarke also
fertilised the above-mentioned red-flowered stock with pollen from the
purple Queen stock, and about half the seedlings scarcely differed in
habit, and not at all in the red colour of the flower, from the
mother-plant, the other half bearing blossoms of a rich purple, closely
like those of the paternal plant. Gaertner crossed many white and
yellow-flowered species and varieties of Verbascum; and these colours
were never blended, but the offspring bore either pure white or pure
yellow blossoms; the former in the larger proportion.[198] Dr. Herbert
raised many seedlings, as he informed me, from Swedish turnips crossed
by two other varieties, and these never produced flowers of an
intermediate tint, but always like one of their parents. I fertilised
the purple sweet-pea (_Lathyrus odoratus_), which has a dark
reddish-purple standard-petal and violet-coloured wings and keel, with
pollen of the painted-lady sweet-pea, which has a pale cherry-coloured
standard, and almost white wings and keel; and from the same pod I
twice raised plants perfectly resembling both sorts; the greater number
resembling the father. So perfect was the resemblance, that I should
have thought there had {94} been some mistake, if the plants which were
at first identical with the paternal variety, namely, the painted-lady,
had not later in the season produced, as mentioned in a former chapter,
flowers blotched and streaked with dark purple. I raised grandchildren
and great-grandchildren from these crossed plants, and they continued
to resemble the painted-lady, but during the later generations became
rather more blotched with purple, yet none reverted completely to the
original mother-plant, the purple sweet-pea. The follo