148 INDIAN CORN CULTURE. 
the corn plant that is especially nourishing. 
Then, inside of these tubes, minute bodies 
termed spores (seeds) develop, and finally the 
spot becomes a mass of these, and then all of 
FIG. 56.—CORN SMUT breaking out on theear. (After Tulasne.) 
the little plants excepting the spores wither 
away. The dark-colored, loose smut, is mostly 
the mass of spores, of which there are countless 
numbers. <A single cubic inch of them would 
contain over fifteen billions. The top of a pin- 
