94 Selection Does Not Lead to Origin of Species. 



maize of Baden, within three years after its introduction 

 into Germany. 



Darwin quotes Metzger^s Getreidearten, translating 

 word for word. Metzger's Landwirthschaftliche P flan- 



Fig. 20. Ears of Maize of Commerce. All the fig- 

 ures reduced on the same scale (Vs). i. Giant 

 yellow Dent field corn. 2. Miniature maize (Zea 

 gracillima). 3. Pop-corn (white Rice Maize). 



senkunde lies before me; it contains the description of 

 the observation on page 208 in the first volume.-^ Dar- 

 win calls this case the most remarkable instance knozvn 



^ Darwin, Variations of Animals and Plants Under Domesti- 

 cation. I, p. 340. Metzger, Getreidearten, p. 208, Landivirthsehaft- 

 liche Pflanzenkunde ( ? the same work) 1841, I, p. 208. Cf. also 

 Wallace, Darwinism, 2d. ed., p. 419. 



