GERMLESS AND NORMAL SEEDS IN MAIZE 



Figure 3. Alternate rows show germless and normal seeds, the second, 

 fourth and sixth rows from the top being normal seeds; first, third and fifth 

 rows, germless seeds. The upper four rows show longitudinal sections of the 

 seeds through the embryo. The third and fourth rows show seeds that have 

 been soaked in water for twenty-four hours. The first and second rows show 

 dry seeds in section. Note the cavity in the germless seeds, and how little 

 change has been produced in them by soaking as compared with the normal. 

 Germless seeds have been observed in a number of variaties of maize, but the 

 character is not inherited in the same way in all of them. 



