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The peloric snapdragon has five small unequal spurs at the base of its long tube, and in this respect agrees with the peloric toad-flax.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de

My peloric plants are still available, and the occurrence of this form elsewhere would give material for a successful experiment.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de

Some flowers have almost certainly become more or less completely peloric through reversion.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles

The step from the ordinary toad-flax to the peloric form is short, and it appears as if it might be produced by slow conversion.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de

Indian cress or Tropaeolum majus loses the spur in some double varieties and with it most of its symmetrical structure; it seems to be considered justly as a peloric malformation.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de