EXPLANATION OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS 
Piate VII. Reproduction of a page of Lyte’s (1619) 
New Herbal, which describes the inflorescences of 
maize. 
Piate VIII. Example of extreme elongation in an 
ear of Guarany pod corn. The lower half of this 
ear was enclosed by the husk and is compacted 
with the kernels arranged in rows. The upper half 
was free of the husks and is intensely elongated. 
Piatre IX. The basic structure of the maize ear is 
illustrated by this enlarged (1.5) photograph of 
the elongated terminal portion of an ear of Guarany 
pod corn. A pair of spikelets has been removed at 
each node to show the simple rachis bearing spike- 
lets in whorls at the nodes. 
Piatt X. Relation between compactness and num- 
ber of rows. The left ear has eight rows at the tip; 
fourteen rows at the base. The center ear and the 
naked rachis at right show how the internodes be- 
come progressively shorter toward the base. The 
number of spikelets at each node remains approx- 
imately the same. 
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