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NATURAL CROSS-FERTILIZATION IN INDIA. 



Triticum vulgare, Vill. var. alborubrum, Kcke. 

 In one of the plots of this beardless variety with smooth red 

 chaff and white grain one aberrant plant was found in 1908 which 

 split, in 1909, as follows : — 



Triticum vulgare, Vill. var. fuliginosum, Al. 

 In the plots of this variety (bearded, densely felted grey chaff 

 and red grain) on the Lyallpnr farm, a large number of aberrant 

 plants were found in 1908 which, when sown separately, behaved 

 as follows : — 



No. 



178 



179 



Parent ear, 1908. 



A macaroni like wheat, bearded, 

 chaff smooth reddish, grain 

 white. 



Bearded, lax, chaff' felted white, 

 grain red. 



Progeny, 1909. 



All (3) bearded, chaff' smooth, grain white. 

 2 chaff red. 

 1 ,, white. 



All (12) bearded, lax, chaff white, grain red. 

 8 chaff very densely felted. 



