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_ This presentation is an interesting one, but it does not show — 
the full significance, nor the part that atavism has furnished. It 
will be noticed that the ears noted are all of the species named, 
and that there are no intermediates. I propose hence to examine 
the crop of 1885, the seed used having been all exposed to cross- 
fertilization in 1884, and much of it in 1883 and 1884. The 
varieties as named were all compared with authentic specimens or 
with careful drawings. Variables which could not be named were 
passed by, as are also those plantings whose crop was all true to 
type. Ihave added to each name the letters A, B or C, indicat- 
ing the sub-species. 
Zea everta seed. 
Quarantino (C). Vielded some ears of New England Twelve- 
rowed pop (B). A few flint kernels in crop. ve 
White Pearl (C). Yielded some ears of Red Pearl pop (C). 
: Small .White Pearl (C). Yielded some ears of Common 
Twelve-rowed pop (C). 
New England Yellow (A). Yielded some ears of New England 
pop (A), and some of Egyptian pop (C). ‘ 
Purple Rice (C). Yielded some ears of Yellow Eeyptian pop 
(C), and some of Red Pearl pop (C). 
Pearl (C). Yielded some ears of Small Pearl pop (C). A few 
sweet kernels in the crop. 
Red Pearl (C). ’ Yielded some ears of White Pearl pop ©). oe 
Twelve-rowed from Amber Rice seed (C). Yielded some ears — & 
of Yellow New England pop (A), and some ears of Red New oes 
England pop (A). 2 
Amber Rice (C). Yielded some ears of Twelyetowed a oe 
(B), and some ears of Egyptian pop (C). Pas 
Amber Rice (C). Yielded some ears of Red Rice pop O, o 
_ and some ears of New England pop (A). ie 
<i indurata seed. 
_ gach Yellow Six Weeks (C). Produced some ears of Qua 
: antino pop (C). 
ue Compton’ s Early (B). prodiuoaa some ears of Canada Twel 
rowed flint acea — sweet kernels i in “ 
