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two parents, ear much bearded, black striped with white; grain white. 
The two plants were alike, so only one was kept. 
1902. 
_ Three forms appeared and were preserved. 
One wheat resembling a spelt, with a hairy grey ear, loose, long and 
bearded ; grain long and red, and stripping fairly easily (1). 
A turgidum wheat, with a hairy, red ear, compact and square, bearded, 
and small red grain (2). 
A soft, white, bearded wheat, with half compact and glabrous ear, 
being therefore less compact than the soft wheat employed in the 
cross (8). 
1903. 
1 reproduced itself fairly well, that is to say, it was grey (11*), 
except that two plants had, like the type, the appearance of a spelt, 
easily husking, but with a rosy-coloured and glabrous ear. One of these 
plants was preserved (12). 
2 reproduced itself in the same form, and has not varied so far. 
3, on the average, kept fixed (31), except one plant with a red, bearded 
ear (32), and several half-compact greyish, bearded, soft wheats (33). 
1904. 
11 did not vary. 
12 reproduced itself in the same form, excepting one plant of soft 
wheat, with red and bearded ear, exactly the same as 32 in 1903, and 
which was not preserved on that account. 
2 and 51 have not varied. 
32 varied a great deal, the plants resembling the type being the 
minority (821). 
There appeared some white bearded wheats, like 81, which were not 
preserved, and one plant with white beardless ears, with glumes slightly 
streaked with brown (322). 
33 returned to the white bearded type (3) from which it originated 
and was destroyed. 
1905. 
11, 12, 2, 31 did not vary. 
321 produced out of nine plants: 
1 single plant with bearded red ear, lke type (8211). 
6 beardless red wheats, of which one was preserved (8212). 
1 white beardless and 1 white bearded like 31, which were destroyed. 
322 remained fixed, did not vary except as to height and size. The 
brown striping of the glumes more marked than in the preceding year. 
To sum up, after four generations, this cross between a turgidwm 
and sativum has produced : 
11. A hairy grey spelt. 
12. A rosy-coloured glabrous spelt. 
2. A hairy red turgidum. 
31. A soft bearded white. 
3211. A soft bearded red. 
3212. A soft beardless red. 
322. A soft, beardless, striped wheat. 
* See footnote on p. 347. 
