diagram in Fig. 8. The specimens on 
which it is based are illustrated in 
Plate VI. 
That this conclusion may be more 
nearly correct than the earlier one is 
supported by the fact that in our ge- 
netically reconstructed wild corn pro- 
duced by combining components of 
the tunicate locus with genes from 
various popcorn varieties, we have en- 
countered exactly this situation: clus- 
ters of small ears each enclosed in short 
husks and the entire cluster enclosed 
in long husks which flare open at ma- 
turity. 
Fic. 3. Diagrammatic longitudinal section based on 
specimens illustrated in Plate VI showing how the 
long husks may have enclosed a cluster of short ears, 
each enclosed in its own husks. Solid lines represent 
actual specimens; broken lines indicate what may 
have been the additional parts. 
"TASSELS 
Only one specimen of tassel, a fragment of a central 
spike, was found and this occurred in the uppermost 
level. Its spikelets have relatively long glumes. Since 
the specimens of tassels found in the 1948 excavation, 
although described, have not been illustrated, we are 
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