Crossing of Bearded Dense and Beardless Lax Wheats. 53 
Both the lax and dense forms, whether bearded or beardless, 
will, however, breed true to the lax or dense type of ear 
(Fig. 1), so that it only remains to determine whether they 
will breed true to the bearded and beardless characters. 
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The beardless condition of the first cross and the fact that 
there are on the average three beardless to one bearded 
individual indicates that beards are recessive to no beards 
FIG. 3.— Crossing of Wheats with two pairs of characters (Bearded Dense and Beardless Lax). 
