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kernels from a white dent ear raised from a red unpodded ear of 
pod corn. From yellow dent seed, sub-species C, were grown 
sweet, flint and dent corns with the podded character, and sweet, 
flint, dent and soft corn in unpodded ears.. The variables noticed 
Were tassel corn, ears with kernels uniformily and lightly husked, 
heavily. husked, fastigiate ears, unpodded ears, cone-shaped ears, 
cylindrical ears; kernels white, yellow, red and striped. From 
podded seed, 166 plants yielded 76 podded and 29 unpodded 
€ars and one tassel ear. The presence of smut diminished the 
yield toa large extent. The number of rows on unpodded ears 
varied from 12 to 24. : 
The description of the dent plants bearing the podded ears is: © 
Strong growing, ordinarily from 8 to 10 feet tall, exceedingly 
leafy, inclined to sucker, adventitious roots at lower nodes, the 
crop borne about four feet from the ground, on the fifth to seventh 
node from the top. Tassel very heavy; the branches long and 
drooping, not rising very high above the foliage, very frequently 
kernel bearing, the grain either bare or podded. Ears variable in 
length and form. In the heavily podded samples the cone shape 
with imbrication is prevalent; as the podding becomes lighter the 
fars tend more towards the cylindrical, but even in wholly un- 
Podded ears the cone-shape occasionally persists. In some cases 
a fastigiate group of husked ears at the but, changing to heavily 
Podded kernels as we near the tip ; in other cases the outer husk 
mbraces a whole cluster of ears, which in our growing were too 
late for crop. Cobs in the heavily podded ears very flimsy, when 
dry tending to break readily into short pieces; in the fastigiate 
Specimens even more flimsy ; in the lightly podded forms larger 
and less loose, even to the ordinary hard and dense cob of the 
‘ommon form. Kernels in heavily podded samples, being re- 
moved from pressure, are more rounded than in their unpodded 
form, and often distinctly pointed towards the place of insertion 
on their cob, the distichous arrangement often very pronounced ; 
*scasionally two or even three kernels in a common pod. The 
Corneous matter is very hard and flinty. The pods are variable in 
length, usually white, occasionally brown or red-tinged. 
In favor of Zea tunicata being closely allied to a primitive form 
La may call attention to the appearance of podded kernels on ears 
