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Zea * InpuRATA, THE Fiint Corns. 
In this agricultural species also, we have three races, which we 
shall designate as A, B, and C. These are all characterized by the 
structure of the kernel, which in section shows the corneous matter 
extending completely about the visible starch, and which is unlike 
the structure found in the kernels of the other races, except in the 
ease of certain pop corns, from which it is distinguished by size of 
ear and kernel. Insome extreme cases this corneous matter becomes 
extremely thin at the summit, and allows the shrinkage of the inte- 
rior in drying to break in or indent, and thus except as taken in 
connection with other characters, the kernel would occasionally 
answer to the description of a dent. Color, various but glossy. — 
Race A. — Ear stalk small to medium; ear cylindrical in whole 
or in larger part of its length. Kernels not rounded over butt, 
rounded, broader than deep, usually 8-rowed; color various. 
+ Ear strictly cylindrical, or tapering only slightly at lower 
third ; cob white. aa 
* Colored kernels. “4 
1. Buur Fru. — Ears six to eight inches long, about one and 
one-fourth inches in diameter ; resembles the Canada in every respect, 
save color, which is yellow red striped, with blue kernels intermixed. 
This seems a very ancient corn, now almost out of cultivation. In 
1848, Salisbury mentions it as then not much cultivated, and in 1850, 
a correspondent from Bloomfield, Me., to the United States Patent 
Office Commissioner, says: “The old Indian corn remains nearestto 
its pristine state, tall and straight, two ears to the stock, half bluish = 
and half yellow.” Josselyn in his “ Rarieties,” 1638-63, says “In- 
dian wheat, of which there are three sorts, yellow, red and blew. — 



