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HYBRIDS AND VARIATIONS IN WHEAT. 347 
B? Famity. 
B’.— In his communication of January 1888, my father pointed out 
that this variety produced, in 1887, out of ten plants, three beardless and 
seven bearded. The wheats of each class were unlike each other, and six 
forms were preserved ; let us call them B’1, B’2, B’3, B’4, B’5, B’6. 
Of all these forms, B?4 was most like B’, always reproduced itself as a 
soft, bearded, white wheat until 1890, but, appearing less interesting than 
the other forms, was then destroyed. 
B?1 was a white, soft, beardless wheat, with very thin ears, unevenly 
placed spikelets, and red grain. In 1888, this wheat varied and produced 
four types, B?11, B’12, B’13, B’14.* 
B?11 was a soft wheat, with a flat red ear, large, beardless, with red 
grain ; in 1889 it produced three forms: B?’111, B*112, B?113. 
B?111 was like B*11, and was destroyed in 1890. 
B?112 was a soft wheat, bearded, rosy, with a square ear and yellow 
grain. Destroyed in 1890. 
B°113 was a soft, bearded, white wheat, with round yellow grain ; 
has never varied since then, and still exists in 1906. 
B’12 most nearly approached to B*’l. In 1889 it produced four 
varieties : B?121, B?122, B*123, B7124. 
B?121 was like B*12, and was destroyed in 1890. 
B?122 was a beardless, white, soft wheat, with a large ear: 
it did not vary until 1898, and then produced two forms, 
B?1221 and B?1222.* 
B?1221 was like B*122 in nine cases out of ten. It 
does not vary any more, and still exists in 1906. 
B?1222 was a single plant witha very long and spelt- 
formed ear, glumes very long, with long yellow 
grain, which neyer varied, and still exists in 1906. 
B?123 was a soft wheat, white, bearded, with a loose ear, grain 
yellow, long and very slender. Destroyed in 1890. 
B7124 was a soft wheat, white, bearded, compact, of the bristly 
type. Destroyed in 1890. 
B?13 was a soft white wheat, awned, with small round red grain. In 
1889, it produced some bearded plants which were not followed up. B13 
was destroyed in 1890. 
B?14 was a soft white bearded wheat, with shiny-red grain; in 1889 
it produced : 
B?141 (nine plants in ten) were like B714. Destroyed in 1890. 
B?142, one plant with the ear whiter, straw shorter, same grain. 
Destroyed in 1890. 
B?2 was a soft, white, beardless wheat, flat, hairy, awned, with white 
grain. In 1888 it produced two forms : 
B’21 was like B?2, did not vary in 1889 or 1890, and was killed by 
frost in 1891. 
* The reader will not fail to notice that these must be read as B two, one one ; 
B two, one two; B two, one three, and so on, and not as if they were B two, eleven ; 
B two, twelve, and so on. B two, one two two one; B two, one two two two, and not 
B two, one thousand two hundred and twenty-one, or B two, one thousand two 
hundred and twenty-two. And so all through this paper.—Eprror. 
