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a No. 4. Mummy corn from Iquique, Chili. Expedition of Geo. 
A. Dorsey, 1891. Ear-stalk small. Ear 3% in. long, 1% in. 
diameter, tapering, rounded over butt and tip, no sulci between 
the rows, which are a little irregular, very close kernelled, 
about 17 kernels in a row, and 20-rowed. The kernels 4% 
in. long, % in. broad, strongly rounded at summit, tapering 
at the sides, set upright on the cob. Color externally a deep 
port wine glossy red, internally a dullish white, not as dingy 
as im Nos. 2 and 3. . The structure all starchy matter, hence Za 
amylacea, The general appearance of the specimen is that of a 
large kernelled very flinty pop corn. The kernels are so densely 
_ compressed that a horizontal section shows a polygonal outline, 
as is so readily observed in some varieties of Pearl pop. 
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XIV. 
It is singular that nearly all, the early corns mentioned in my 
Note II. were from Southern localities, as Nicaragua, Brazil and 
} Paraguay. This was brought to my attention by noticing that the 
Cinquanté corn from Greece is one of the few varieties that 
ripens at Ottawa, Canada. The Danubian corn of Southeastern 
Europe, which to some extent enters into commerce, as near as I 
can find out, belongs to the Golden pop class, which is an early 
type, and Humboldt, it will be remembered, refers to a two-month 
_ Variety in Hungary, the same as found in Nicaragua and on the, 
_ banks of the Amazon river. The earliest variety I have ever 
iS _ grown is the Dwarf Golden pop which ripened in about 70 
_ days from planting. The next earliest variety was the 40 days, 
_ a flint in some respects reminding of Canada flint, and which was 
& ripe in 75 days, The only high Northern corn whose period of 
_ growth I find given is the Mitchell’s Extra Early flint, gained by | 
selection from the Native or Squaw flint of the Northwest. At _ 
_ Ottawa it required 110 days to ripen; at Nappan, Nova Scotia, 
411 days in 1892, 126 days in 1893; at Agassiz, British Columbia, 
138 days. .In these regions it seems that this corn is harvested 
before it becomes as hard as with us. 
variety, a as ae the ‘toe, r pespaited to matures, he fhe. Towa 
_ The height of the corn plant varies considerably with the same _ Me 
