pelorian.

1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxii. 318 (note) This [variation in the corolla of Antirrhinum] is described at length under the name of Peloria in the first volume of Amœn Acad.

1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. ii. 469 Linaria vulgaris exhibits what Linnaeus called Peloria.., by the flowers being 5-spurred in place of 1-spurred, and thus becoming regular.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species v. 145 In irregular flowers, those nearest to the axis are oftenest subject to peloria, and become regular.

1885 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 21 184/2 Peloria, or the regular form of flowers normally irregular, seems to be most common among flowers with spurred petals.

1925 New Phytologist 24 172 Many other flower monstrosities, such as peloria, are of sudden origin and should no doubt be classed as mutations.

1952 P. Mann Systematics Flowering Plants ii. 129 Peloria sometimes occurs in the terminal flowers of the Laburnum inflorescence.

1985 Watsonia 15 357 Peloria in orchids occurs when..the inner perianth segments are replaced by two additional labella.

c1860 in M. T. Masters Veg. Teratol. (1869) II. ii. 233 This abnormality, although at first sight seeming to indicate a pelorian tendency, is no approximation to regularity, from the fact of the extra spur being differently placed..from the normal one.

1896 G. Henslow How to study Wild Flowers 164 In the pelorian variety the complete number, five, may be restored.

1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. i. ii. 316 In some instances by pelorization (πελωριος, monstrous), it is found that tetradynamous plants become tetrandrous with equal stamens alternating with the petals.

1868 C. Darwin Variation Animals & Plants II. xxvi. 346 The most perfectly pelorised examples had six petals, each marked with black striæ like those on the standard-petal.