BULLETIN | 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 
Notes on Maize, 
By E. Lewis STURTEVANT. 
XI. 
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My own experiments on the pollination of corn have been > 
from the planting of many varieties and seed-selections in juxta- 
- position, and then studying the crop produced. Where commer- 
 Cial seed or named samples were used, and the crop ee 
examined for off kernels, the result was: 
Zea everta. 1883, one variety, all pop kernels; 1884, five 
varieties, all pop kernels; 1885, three varieties, all pop kernels. 
: Zea indurata. 1883, ten varieties, all flint kernels; 1884, 
nineteen varieties, all flint kernels; 1885, three varieties, all flint 
kernels. Me 
po BEG indentata. 1883, twelve varieties, all dent kernels; 1884, 
_ éleven varieties, all dent kernels ; 1885, two varieties, and one had 
_ Some flint kernels. 
> Zea amylacea. 1883, one variety, and some flint kernels; 
1884, nine varieties, and all soft kernels; 1885, four varieties, and 
_ one had some flint kernels. 
7 Zea saccharata. 1883, twenty-seven varieties, and of these 
_ twenty-four had some flint kernels; 1884, thirty-five varieties, and 
of these five had some dent kernels, and twenty-nine had some - 
- flint kernels ; 1885, ten varieties, and of these two had dca oot : 
“* Continued fom Bouter, Avg. rise 343 
