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Lincoln, Dakota.* Du Pratz, 1763, describes white, yellow, red 
and blue homony corn in Louisiana. The San Padro Indians of 
Mexico cultivate a flint variety, the Tarahumarer Indians two varie- 
ties and the Yacqui Indians one, as represented in my collections. 
The common corn of Honduras is described by Squier as a flint. 
In Guatemala, Brigham found a variety of large kernelled corn 
like “rice corn,” a form which I have never seen. In Paraguay 
the Guaranies have an abati hata, ‘composed of very hard grains.’ 
In Peru, DeVega says the Indians have a hard kind called 
muruchu. Tschudi seems to describe a flint corn under the name 
morocha, and Herndon and Gibbon describe the mais morocha at 
Tarma as with small grain, red, white, yellow and blue, which is 
parched, forming cancha or “ toasted maize.” The Topover corn, 
a very distinct and peculiar variety, with eight or ten rows, WaS 
claimed to have originated in Nantucket, and was first brought to 
notice in 1884. In 1886,I found a yellow and a white Ten-rowed 
Topover in the Tarahamarer Indian collection sent me by Dr. 
Palmer. 
I have noticed more sports in this species than in the others, 
because it is the one I have cultivated in my farming. I have 
figured in the Scientific Farmer, October, 1878, a tassel bearing 
grain, a tassel undergoing partial transformation into ear, and one 
converted into a tassel ear; also four ears developed in a bunch 
from the upper node. Mention is also made of the extremity of 
an ear bearing a tassel, and in the New York Experiment Station 
Report, 1883, 40, of an ear of New England twelve-rowed, eight 
inches long, then one anda quarter inches of tassel, and at the 
end of this tassel another well formed ear three inches long: In 
other varieties, a branch may occur on the leaf axil bearing # bial 
minal ear and one or more at the nodes below, and in 1879 ! had 
a branch with one terminal and three nodal ears. By compressing 
the pith of a growing plant this branching may be greatly stimu 
lated. One variety, the Vermont yellow, is described as bearing 
its ear normally on a branch two feet long. Occasionally #8° 
* May 54, 1894, Dr. Wm. Saunders, Director of the Experimental Farm, Canada, 
sent me a sample of the Squaw corn grown at Rat Portage, Lake of the Woods, about 
50° N., which corresponds with the Mandan flint, and is a shorter and smaller €4 oy 
the common Northern New England Eight-rowed. The ear was 6% inches long 4 : 
kernels large. 
