Show r Oak Kernels Grow on Ear of Wheat 1 P. P HUMBERT of the Agricultural E Experiment Station at College Station Texas sends bends to the Journal of Heredity a photo of one of the strangest natural freaks ever seen 7 an an ear car of wheat with two oat kernels ken ker i ads nels growing on it He says the C specimen was found in Northeast Northeast North North- east Texas and andIn J Jin In producing It nature was as astrue i. i I true a nature nature- faker as the tho student student stu stu- dent who sought to fool his professor professor pro pro- fessor by unrelated unrelated Insects The specimen was p perfect e r f e c t writes Mr Humbert Hum Hum- bert The oat I pedicels c came a in e efrom I from the base of or orthe i the central kernel ker I ad nel of one of the I I lower of r IW of 01 iRS Ae the wheat head car of 01 wheat Cheat with the rile oat k kernels C ern r Il e C I 3 t the h c attachment gro cing on right being completely the oats remover removed hidden by the stiff outer glumes crowded together at this point The Ther oat pedicel was wrapped completely and tightly around the base of the central floret of ot the wheat The opportunity for tor this queer behavior be be- havior ha must have been afforded by bythe bythe bythe the fact tact that an oat plant grew close to the wheat plant and while the th pedicel was very young and sensitive tho the heads of ot wheat and oats were brought together by some agency presumably presumably pre pre- wind The pedicel behaved as a tendril and upon nearing maturity maturity ma ma- pulled the oats from the parent J oat plant |