NAKED OATS 



HVRT OATS 



NORMAL BURT OATS AND NAKED OATS 



Figure 17. Normal hulled oats have only two flowers to the panicle, while naked oats 

 have an average of seven. A strain of Burt Oats had been grown for several y^^^^ a^ ^e 

 Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, when the variation ^1?°^^"^;" Jen^ Jrown near any 

 in 1920 The selection in which the aberrant plant appeared had never been grown near any 

 nakc;^loats so far as known. This, and the behavior of the plants jn subsequent generations, 

 makes the origin of the variation by natural crossing seem very unlikely. 



