335 
Kernels translucent yellow, flat at summit, deeply shrunken at. 
top and sides, no sulcus between rows. The most attractive 
sweet corn I have ever seen. 
2. Ear fusiform, rather pointing at tip, kernels rounding 
strongly towards a smallish stalk, 5 inches long by 1 7% inches in 
largest diameter, 18-rowed, kernels much deeper than broad, very 
thick, wrinkled, of a translucent yellow. No sulcus between rows. 
3. Ear slightly fusiform, kernels rounding gradually to a small 
stalk, 5 inches long by 134 inches in largest diameter, 16-rowed. 
Kernels translucent yellow, quite golden, wrinkled... A deep sulcus 
between the rows. 
0 The crop failed to mature at Geneva, N. Y., and thus the seed 
was lost. The plants grew very tall, and were only at the bloom 
when fall frosts came. 
VII. 
Zea tunicata, the Pod corns. 
In this species each kernel is enclosed in a pod or husk, and 
the ear thus formed itself enclosed in a husk. 
Zea mays tunicata St. Hil. Ann. Sc. Nat. 16: 143, fide DeCand, 
_ Lea cryptosperma Bonafous, Mais. 18 36,45. 
Zea mays vaginata, N. Y. Ex. Sta. 1884, 186, jig. 
Frumentum indicum gvano avellane magnitudine, C. Bauh, 162 3, 
24; J. Bauh, 1650, 2, 454; Moris, Oxon. 1699, 3, 248. 
Frumenutum indicum majus grano avellane, C. B., J. B., Moris, 
Oxon. 1699, 3,8: 8, bio fe. 
Ethiop Manigette, Mentz. Index, 1682, 122. 
_ The vernacular names I have noticed are: California corn, 
Cow corn, Forage corn, Husk corn, Oregon corn, Pod corn, Primi- 
tive corn, Rocky Mountain corn, Texan corn, Wild corn. In 
Africa, manigette (C. B., 1623); in Buenos Ayres, pinsingallo 
(Bonafous). ; 
The Bibliography of this species, additional to that given in 
the list of synonyms, is as follows: Teschemacher, Proc. Boston, 
Soc; of Nat. Hist. Oct. 19, 1842; Lindley, Jour. Hort. Soc. 1846, 
"5, fig.; Salisbury, Trans. N. Y. Agr. Soc. 1848, 837; U. S. Pat. 
Office Report, 1853, 98, fig-; DeCandolle, Geog. Bot. 1855, 951; 
Orig. des Pl, Cult, 1883, 316; Klippart, Agr. of Ohio, 1858, 24, 
