A FREAK EAR OF CORN 



This curious seed cluster was devel- 

 oped in the course of the hybridizing 

 experiments with teosinte and corn. 

 Doubtless it tells the story of some 

 ancestral strain in which the seeds grew 

 in a rounded cluster, little suggestive of 

 the long ear that characterizes the 

 modern product. 



