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COLOR INHERITANCE 

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static or " recessive " to the red. This is one of the first 

 cases of this kind which has appeared, as heretofore the 

 bluish colors have quite generally been found epistatic to 

 the reds. The most important studies which have been 

 made relating to the inheritance of the anthocyan 

 colors are those of Bateson (1902, 1905, 1906, 1909) 

 and his co-workers, on Lathy rus and Matthiola, Miss 

 Wheldale (1907) and Baur (1908) on Antirrhinum, and 

 Tschermak (1901, 1904) on Pisum and Phaseolus. In 

 all of these genera as well as in Clarkia and Salvia 

 (Bateson, etc., 1905), the more bluish anthocyan color 

 is epistatic to the reddish anthocyan. Bateson (1909, p. 

 41) states in one place, that in Primula Sinensis "blue 



