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OAT PANICLE TYPES 



The normal panicle of the variety Victory is on the left (awns on lower kernels only), and in 

 the center is the heterozygous false wild (only lower kernels of spikelets awned), and on the right 

 the homozygous false wild (usually heavy, geniculate awns on both kernels in a spikelet). Appar- 

 ently the false wild oats are true mutations and not crosses with wild oats because the segregation 

 of the progeny of the false wild forms is very different from that of actual crosses. (Fig. 21.) 



Table I : Data showing the nature of the progenies from individual plants of Victory oats, heterozygous 

 false Victory, and homozygous false Victory; all the progeny of a single plant 



