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NORMAL AND ““‘TASSEL EAR” TYPES OF MAIZE 
A pistillate flowered maize plant, called ‘tassel seed’ is shown on the right. That on the left 
is a normal plant frsm the same pedigree culture. The silks of tassel seed push out of the 
upper sheaths at, abut the same time that tassels appear on normal plants. (Fig. 9.) 
