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THE “LOBES” OF MAIZE LEAVES 
The edges of the leaf sometimes cut each other as they grow, thus producing this deceptive 
appearance of lobing. The veins of the leaf rearrange themselves, as may be seen in the 
lower left-hand corner of the picture, to conform to the changed condition of affairs. This 
abnormality is not very rare, although it has seldom been noticed. Blaringhem, who 
mutilated maize plants to see if he could produce an inherited effect, found these ‘‘lobes”’ 
in the progeny, and wrongly supposed that they were due to his manipulations. Photo- 
graph natural size. (Fig. 11.) 
