194 THE INHERITANCE OF CHARACTERS IN RICE, It 
Several other natural crosses have been found in which the factors 7 and 
I were concerned. Some of these, granular dark furrows appearing in a pure 
tipped gold type, were carried on and gave the results shown in Table VII. 
Some of the figures are not as near as could be desired to expectation but there 
is no doubt that they represent the ratios noted. 
TABLE VII. 
Segregation of GGT tli. 
ee ——————— 
; een Dark Tipped Dark 
Origin of parent - Reto Nong | peaee furrows gold | gold 
GGETI|GGtrie Gril Giers 
ase pet Ee ee eee 
| 
1272 846 305 281 || 103 
Natural crosses A ..4| 1275 N 2,945 775 838 | 264 
| 2 lots 3,393 1,022 957 | 360 
No. 1272 F = 4 lots 2,660 898 824 270 
Iso. 1275 N F ; w | 4 lots 2,570 793 874 234 
Total 12,414 3,793 3.774 |, a28t 
(9:3:3:1) | 11,932 3,977 3077* | areas 
| 
No. 1272 F, is .» | 3 lots 2,466 * 889 
Nomi2vowN: Bejan ins - LL lot 1,003 cs 322 
aa ve 
Total 3,469 1,211 
(3: 1) 3,510 | 1,170 
No. 1272 F. as ». | 2 lots 1,599 592 
No, 1275 NF, .: Beal Slots 2,951 733 ns Se 
Total 4,550 1,325 e ss 
(3:1) 4,406 1,469 be di 
UL ee Ue ok 2 ee re PC I oe 
Mottling. 
On several occasions it was noted that certain families derived from 
natural crosses, splitting for some type of gold or dark furrows colouring, 
showed a number of plants with mottled grain, At first this was put down to 
