HYBRIDS AND VARIATIONS IN WHEAT. 369 
3. Slender and bearded. 
4. Compact and bearded. 
5. Branched like a Tr. turgidwm (‘ Blé de Miracle’). 
In 1902 and 1903 these types reproduced themselves in exactly the 
same form, except that, in 1903, the slender bearded form gave one 
beardless form. 
This experiment was not carried any further. 
VARIATIONS IN THE SAME PLANT. 
The wheat described in the Catalogue Synonymique as Odessa 
No. 16, and also the wheat Ghirka of Bessarabia, often produced plants 
which agreed in all essential points with the type, but were white, 
and what is more extraordinary, some plants bore both coloured and white 
ears. The experiment of separately sowing the grain from the white and 
brown ears I made several times, and always found in the plants of the 
following generation both white and brown ears on the same plant. (A 
case coming close to that of partial sterility.) 
MISCELLANEOUS VARIATIONS. 
The few cases which I am going to shortly describe were not studied 
as to their descent. But still I can safely give them as variations, as 
they only differed from the type in one single characteristic. 
The ‘ Rouge d’Altkirch’ wheat (a very old variety) produced, in 1904, 
one hairy plant. 
Sandomir, in 1904, one hairy plant. 
Australie (Tailbouis) wheat, in 1904, several bearded plants. 
Red St. Laud wheat, in 1904, one plant with bifurcated ear (fig. 105), 
Beardless Odessa (1905) produced two hairy-eared plants. 
Lamed always produces some bearded plants. 
‘ Sandomirga d’Erivan’ (1905), one beardless. 
‘ Desert’ (Bohar), one beardless plant. 
‘Trigo derespado de Murcia’ (1905), several beardless. 
Briasca, No. 2 (1905), one plant with long, large and flat ears. 
