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Mender s Laws of Inheritance. 
any experiments in the animal kingdom simply because large 
generations have been raised, and there can be no question 
about the statistics or the principles deduced from them. In 
the one variety the ears are lax ; in the other they are dense 
Fig. 1— Crossing of Ldx and Dense Eared Wheats. 
or club-headed (big. 1, p). When these types were crossed 
together, a hybrid (F i) was obtained with ears which were 
neither as lax as the one parent nor yet as dense as the other, so 
that in this respect the ears may be described as intermediate, 
