PEDIGREE CHART 



OF 



BRANCHED EARED 



MAIZE 



ORIGINAL EAR 



THE INHERITANCE OF BRANCHED EARS 



Figure 5. The ears bracketed together are from the same progeny. In each case the 

 number of plants bearing ears of the type shown is indicated on the diagram. Thus in F« 

 the right-hand pair of ears represents a progeny of eighteen plants, fifteen of which bore un- 

 branched cars while the other three bore branched ears. From the ear marked X in F-' 

 three generations of progenies were grown with continuous inbreeding; in all, 104 progenies. 

 Only one of these progenies, in the third generation, produced a single plant with branched 

 ears, along with twenty-six nrirmal-eared plants. 



