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€ars, more rarely a bunch of ears appear at a node, but in such 
cases they all do not fertilize. Digitate and branching ears are not 
very uncommon. In some cases two ears joined at their base, in 
others three or more; more rarely a whole group is so joined as 
to forma cup lined both inside and outside with kernels. In eight-. 
rowed varieties four-rowed ears are sometimes found, the ear 
then flattened and distichous. Six-rowed ears are also found, and 
such have a tendency to develop the rows ina spiral. In eight- 
rowed corn the breaking of the cob discloses a four-sided appear- 
ance ; in the ten-rowed, a five-sided appearance, and so on, as I 
have indicated in my diagrams published in the New York Ex- 
periment Station Report for 1884. Suckering is of frequent oc- 
currence, and is greatly stimulated by an open exposure and a 
highly manured soil. Japanese striped is an excessively sucker- 
ing variety. Ina digitate ear of Waushakum corn I once found 
some podded kernels, and also once in an otherwise normal ear of 
cight-rowed New England. 
The Sorghum varieties “Dhoura,” “African wheat” and “Millo 
maize” have a structure of kernel corresponding to the flint corn 
type. 
IV. 
Zea indentata, the Dent corns, N. Y. Ex. Sta. 1884, 1724 
1886, 50, Jig. 
The split kernel exposes the chit, corneous matter at the 
Sides, the Starchy matter extending to the summit. 
Turcicum frumentum Dod. frum. 1566, 74, and also as copies; 
Milium Indicum Lob. obs. 1576, 24; Frumentum turcicum Dod. 
Pempt. 1583, 500; 1616, 509. Milium Indicum Plinianum Lob. ic. 
1591, 30; Frumentum Asiaticum Ger. 1636, 81; Milium Indicum 
maximum, Park. th. 1640, 1138; Triticum Peruvianum album 
longum LI, J. Bauh. 1650, 2, 454; Triticum Peruvianum Chabr. 
1666, 174; 1677, 174. 
Frumentum indicum granis luteis Weinm. phyt. 1739, 4 578. 
Frumentum seu milium indicum granis rubentibus Weinm. |. c. 
I find no vernacular names for this species other than “dent” 
Im America. A soft corn, through rapid drying, may form a 
Crease or a dent in its kernel, but a split kernel, which at once 
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