= 333 
showing kernels an inch long, correspondingly broad and thick. 
It is described as having many varieties, and five colors are named 
by Markham. 
But few sports have come under my observation. In 1885 an 
ear of Zuni yellow was grown with a tassel protruding from the 
apex. The Wyandotte suckers so freely as to be said to tiller like 
Wheat ; it also bears many ears to a stalk; one sample from the 
San Padro Indians had a branch with one terminal ear, and four 
ears bunched a short distance below. ‘ 
The variety of Sorghum called « Chinese sugar cane”’ has seed 
floury throughout and without corneous matter, like the soft 
corns. 
VES 
Zea saccharata, the sweet corns. N. Y. Exp. Sta., 1884, 156; 
1886, 59, fig. 7 
The kernel of this species has a semi-transparent or translu- © 
cent, horny appearance, and is more or less crinkled, wrinkled or 
shrivelled. 
Zea mays rugosa Bonafous, Mais. 1836, ¢. zz. (An eight-rowed 
sweet.) : 
The earliest reference to sweet corn that I find is in the Zuni 
myth, as given by Cushing, quoted by Harshberger, where it is 
Said that the oldest sister was yellow corn; the second, blue; the 
third, red; the fourth, white; the fifth, speckled; the sixth, black; 
the seventh, sweet corn. The six colors were in the Zuni collec- 
tion sent me by Mr. Cushing, but there was not a sweet oe 
among them. The first sweet corn in American cultivation was 
the Papoon corn, an eight-rowed variety with a reddish cob, first 
introduced to the region about Plymouth from the Indians of 
Susquehanna in 1779. It belonged to sub-species A. Tschu : 
who was in Peru 1839-42, describes a sweet corn ig gees 
Sub-species C., under the name Amarillo de chancay. The Black 
€xican was described by Burr in 1863, its name indicating ori- 
* iat of subs. 
sin. Under this name two varieties are now grown, one 2 
Species A, the other of sub-species B. pea”: 
a The distribution into culture was slow. It was not ste ae 
by Jefferson in his notes on Virginia in 1781, nor by noe eee 
