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TWO TYPES OF BRANCHED MAIZE EARS 



FiCLKi- :i (Jn the left is sb.own a form with branches enclosed separately in husks, like 

 those of the principal ear. This type of branching seems to be mhented m much the same 

 manner as that of the Pawnee Indian variety (Frontispiece). On the lett is a partly 

 bifurcated ear of maize, a type which strongly suggests that the eight-rowed ear is the result 

 of the fusion of two four-rowed branches. This form of branching may be the sam.e 

 genetically as the "bears foot" branching shown in Figure 1. 



