The other is
called "Fleshy," and is of a pale pink throughout the whole corolla.
Adding these two units to one another, we get the original dark red of
the wild type, and it may be briefly stated here, that the way of
effecting such an addition is given us in the crossing of the "Fleshy"
and the "Delila" variety, the hybrid showing the two colors and
returning thereby to the old prototype.
Other cases of compound flower colors or of color patterns might be
given as in the _Mimulus_ and the poppy, and in most of these cases some
varieties are to be seen in our gardens which show only the single
constituents of the group.
[152] Many dark flowers have an intermediate bright hued form besides
the white variety, as in the case of roses, asters, _Nicandra_ and so
on.
Intermediate forms with respect to stature may also be seen. The
opium-poppy, the snapdragon, peas, the _Nicandra_, and many other
garden-plants have not only dwarf varieties, but also some of
intermediate height. These, though they are intermediate between the
tall and dwarf types, cannot be considered as transitions, as between
them and the extremes, intermediates are, as a rule wholly lacking.
Instances of the same occurrence of three types may be seen in the seeds
of maize ("Cuzco," "Horse-dent" and "Gracillima") of beans and some
other plants.
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