ee 
Zea amylacea, the soft corns, N. Y. Ex. Sta. 1884, 181 ; 1886, 
59, fig. 
The split kernel shows only the chit and starchy matter, 
corneous matter being entire’y absent. : 
Zea erythrolepsis Bonafous, mais, 1836, 30 (Tuscarora). 
4a macrocarpa Klotz. Bot. Zeit. 1851. ; 
Maizium, Peter Martyr, 1493, in Eden’s Hist., Trav. 1577, 10. 
frumentum turcicum Dod. frugum, 1552, 35; Lyte’s Dod. 
1575, 404. The same figures, Ziticum indicum, J. Bauh, 1650, 2, 
453. 
frumentum Indicum Matth. comm. 1576, 305; Calceol. 1571, 
164; the same figure, 7riticum indicum Matthioli, Lugd. 1587, 1: 
382. 
Frumentum Indicum Cam. epit. 1586, 181. The same figure 
also in Uffenb, 1609, 398; Becher, 1662, 147; Verzasch, 1678, 
172; Zwing, 1696, 323. 
In my collections this species shows a greater variety of 
shades and colors than any of the others, and is the principal sort 
grown by the Indians of Mexico. Hence we can refer to Her- 
nandez, who in his history, 1651, mentions white, pale, black, 
Purple, yellow, blue and mixed colors; also a very long ear with 
glistening white, large and tender seed, as Mexican varieties. His 
figure under Tlaolli seu maizio, p- 242, is the same as Aliud 
milium indicum magnum Lob. ic. 1591, 40, and Frumentum turct- 
cém Ger. 1636, 81. His Tlaolli seu maizio, p. 243, is the same 
figure as Milium indicum rubrum, Lob. ic. 1 591, 40, and Frumen- 
tum indicum luteum, Ger. 1636, 82. Tabernemontanus in his 
history, editions of 1 588 and 1613, and Icones, 1590, figures under 
““mentum turcicum five varieties which may be flint; under Arw- 
mentum indicnm fourteen varieties, black, purple, blue, red, yellow, 
White, mottled, variegated and many-colored, and the figures sug- 
Sst a soft corn. The same figures appear in Gerarde’s herbal, 
e +597, but. the names badly transposed or different. /rumentum 
Indicum Tabern. 1588, 760, 761; 1613, 641; ic. 1590, 265, is 
Spied in Bauhins’ editions of Matthiolus, 1598, 319 and nile 
319; in Gerarde, 1597, 75, called Frwmentum Asiaticum in the a 
_ *fcond edition of Gerarde, 1636, 75, it is called Frumentum Indi- 
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