HOWARD, HOWARD AND ABDUR RAHMA>f. 



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Triticum compactum, Host. var. erinaceum, Kcke. 



This bearded variety has smooth red chaff with short bristly 

 spreading awns and small rounded red grains. Twenty- four 

 stray ears were found in 1908 in the plots of this variety and these 

 ears spht up in 1909 as follows : — 



No. 



Parent ear, 1908. 



Progeny, 1909. 



4 Common wheat, bearded, 

 chaff smooth red, grain red. 



Common wheat, slightly 

 bearded, chaff smooth red. 



Do. 



Do. 



do. 



do. 



Do. 



do. 



9 Dwarf wheat, bearded, chaff 

 felted red, grain red. 



10 



U 



12 



13 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



All (4) bearded, chaff smooth red, grain red. 

 2 dwarf wheats. 



2 common wheats (one witli somcwliat rounded 

 grains). 



All (6) bearded, cliatf smooth red, grain light red. 

 1 dwarf wheat, grain rounded. 

 5 common wheats, grain long. 



All (5) bearded, chaff smootli red, grain red. 

 1 dwarf wheat. 

 4 common wheats. 



All (16) chaff' smooth red. 



1 dwarf, beardless, very dense, grain red and round- 

 ed. 

 1 dwarf, short bristly awns, grain red and rounded. 



3 common wheats, beardless, lax, grain red. 



3 common wheats, beardless, lax, grain white. 

 3 common wheats, very sliglitiy bearded, grain red. 

 1 common wheat, very slightly bearded, grain white. 

 1 common wheat, slightl}' bearded, grain red. 



3 common wiieats, fully bearded, grain red. 



All (8) with smooth chaff. 



1 dwarf wheat, beardless, chaff' white, grain white. 



1 dwarf wheat, beardless, cluiff red, giain red. 



1 intermediate between a dwarf and common wheat, 



bearded, glvnnes white and rounded, grain red. 

 1 common wheat, beardless, lax, chaff red, grain 



white. 



4 common wheats, sliglitly bearded, chaff red, 

 grain red. 



All (2) common wheats, bearded, chaff felted, grain led. 

 1 chaff densely felted red. 

 1 chaff felted white. 



All (7) bearded, chaff felted, crain red. 



1 dwarf wheat. 



4 common wheats, chaff' red. 



2 common wheats, chaff white. 



All (5) common wheats, beaidcd ^\■ith red giain. 

 2 chaff felted red. 

 2 „ ,, white. 

 1 chaff smooth red. 



All (2) bearded, chaff densely felted. 

 1 dwarf wheat. 



1 common wheat, chaff red, grain red. 



All (4) common wheats, chaff densely felted red, 

 grain red. 



2 ears lax. 



2 ears dense. 



