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often slightly cupped. Lar tapering a little in upper portion, 
strongly in lower; fourteen to 18-rowed. Kernel often a little deeper 
than broad, flattened on sides in different planes, thick, deep purple 
black, some kernels indented. Cob bright purple. Plant abont six 
feet tall, bearing its ears eighteen inches from the ground. 
Race C. Ear stalk small. ars tapering. Kernels deeper than 
broad. 
11. Mommy. From Peruvian Huacas. The samples, originally 
from the Peabody museum, and verified from a sample seen in pos- 
session of Professor Goodale, of Cambridge, in 1878, answer to the 
description of samples in the Smithsonian museum. Ears about 
four inches long and two inches in diameter, cone form, or strongly 
tapering from the large and rounded butt; 18-rowed. Kernel flat, 
slightly rounded at corners, slanting downward a little, rather rec- 
tangular in outline, indented and resembling in appearance a dent. 
Color brown, probably through age. 
Garcilasso de la Vega speaks of a kind of corn in Peru called 
Capra, which is “tender and highly esteemed.” Rivers and- 
Tschudi say the Peruvians worshipped the ears, “the grains of 
which were of various colors, or were arranged in rows united in 
the shape of a cone.” Hence this variety is doubtless one of the 
sacred corns of ancient Peru, and naturally the one selected for en- 
tombment. | 
12. Cuzco. In the valley of Cuzco, Peru, and only there, as Vil- 
morin believes, this variety is grown in various colors, the white 
only having reached our seedsmen. The kernels are very large, 
often seven-eighths of an inch long by five-eighths of an inch 
broad, rounded pointed at the summit, and creased. The plant 
grows fourteen feet tall, or in California to nineteen feet. In all 
attempts at growing, by ourselves, the plants have perished from 
smut before the ears were formed. We have never seen an ear, 
and only place it in this division on account of the kernels being 
deeper than broad. 
The soft corns appear to be but little grown in the United States, 
and our collections do not afford us many varieties. Our classifica- 
tion may, therefore, be considered as provisional only. Larger col- 
lections would undoubtedly give us better illustrations for Race B 
and probably some of Race C class are at present grown in tropical 
America, one of which may be identified possibly with the Mlazziwm 
of Peter Martyr. 
Zea * Everta, tHE Por Corns. 
An agricultural species in which the corneous matter is in excess, 
the starchy matter often entirely absent. Upon exposing the dry 
kernel to a-high temperature, the whole seed explodes into a white, 
fluffy mass, the interior structure being everted about the chit and 
epidermis. Kernels small, very hard and flinty, the silk scar usually 
very noticeable. 
