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Dr. Edward Palmer, in a letter accompanying the Cocopa In- 
dian corn, wrote that the same varieties were cultivated by the 
Mohave, Pima and Yuma Indians of the United States. 
From my reading I think it is reasonably safe, although some- 
what conjectural, to identify references to our species, as follows: 
ae 
s | 2 ieee 
Ss 8 S 8 
s/f +18 
= 
ae = S ed bee 
S 3 as) = 8 
c.| & |e eae 
8 
8 iS 8 $ S 
S/S |S|SIS 
, 
CAGE UG a ee a 2 
Cliff-dwellers, Fo aes eR EPO Cah ee rat oS Piet I 
Guaranies, of Paraguay, ....... ows Par eR a 2 
EiGhtlurac Indias sey ee Er 
Mandan Indian, . . eee Geese er eg ie I t44 
Mexican Indian, . Sie tee Sra ec ierte air Anca ema sale : 
TOW SRB AOR ee nee 3 : 
POVNUHE CNOIMN 6 oS a 2) 4a 
Piibig Glin 3 
VARIANT TANNA 86 Se ree Lp 
ae : I 
Went Dads anion, ee ; : Te eee 
SRONGIS Se ee a 6 a a a 
The species described or mentioned by me in the Repo 
the New York Agricultural Experimental Station, 1884, with 4 
ures and diagrams of 126 varieties, are thus represented in tabula’ 
torm: 
Sub-species A. Sub-species B. Sub-species C. — 
Zea everta, Pop corns,. . . . 4 5 = . me 
Zea indurata, Flint Corns, 27 9 8 ni 
Zea indentata, Dent corns, . 8 2 38 
Zea amylacea, Soft corns, . . aa 5 * 
Zea saccharata, Sweet corns, , 14 12 8 i 
eotlss 2 ge 60 33 75 a 
: . oe : sub- : : 
I have since received from Chili, one variety soft cor 
species B., and four varieties soft corn, sub- species C. : 
The regermination of cornseed, after drying, has a beat! 
the question of the distribution of the seed in nature. 
ng on 
Some 
