336 
fig.; Darwin, An. & Pl. under Domes [1868] 1, 386; Carman, 
Moore’s Rural New Yorker, Mar. 3, 1877, fig.; Sturtevant, Trans. 
N. Y. Ag. Soc. 1879, 37 and reprints or excepts, 1879, 21; 1880, 
21; N. Y. Ex. Sta. Reports, 1882, 54; 1883, 40; 1884, 142, 186, 
figs.; 1885,95 ; 1886, 64; Science, 1883, 1: 234; Wittmack, ueber 
anteken mais, etc., in Berlin, Anthrop. Ges. Nov. 10, 1879; Lan- 
dreth Seed Catalogue, 1889, fig. 
DeCandolle, who investigated its history up to 1835, quotes the 
Abbe Larranhaga as saying that the Guaycurus Indians cultivate 
it, but according to St. Hilaire this tribe is not agricultural. A 
young Guarany, who recognized this maize, said that it grew in 
the humid forests of his country. Bonafous received the seed 
from Buenos Ayres under the name pinsingallo. Lindley received 
seed from New York said to have come from the Rocky Moun- 
tains. C. Bauhin, 1023, gives an African name, manigette. The 
seed is occasionally supplied by our seedsmen as a curiosity for 
growing in the garden, and doubtless the names California corn, 
Oregon corn, Rocky Mountain corn and Texan corn indicate 
sources from which seed have been procured, but without peces- 
sarily implying origin. It is very rarely grown even by the curi- 
ous, and but few farmers have seen it. A Mr. Bullard, of Ohio, 
on seeing some specimens for the first time, expressed surprise at 
the ear, but said he had frequently found single kernels podded in 
his crop of dent corn. May 18, 1884, J. W. Nicholson, Camden, 
N. J., wrote me that he had now planted Blount’s Prolific [dent] 
corn, the original seed from the Department of Agriculture at 
Washington for four years, and that each successive year he had 
found more and more pod corn in his crop. The samples he sent 
me were ears of fully podded corn of the Blount’s Prolific tyPe- 
December 9, 1885, I received a number of ears of a podded flint 
corn from Ohio, and one of these ears had kernels twinned in the 
pods. In the specimens of Zea canina sent me by Professor Wat- 
son, I note kernels of podded corn of the rice pop tyP® ie 
Science, 1894, 109, is an account of “an ear each grain of which 
had a distinct shuck” from a planting of “ ordinary sugat corn. 
I have myself found podded kernels on a digitate ear of War , 
shakum flint, and also on an otherwise normal ear of 4 common 
New England eight-rowed flint, and have raised podded sweet 
