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yield with trueness to type. We have preferred describing but a 
few typical varieties, but a collection could be easily made which 
would count large numbers, and present many points of minor diver- 
gence. ‘The species is a very distinct one, and a pop corn cannot be 
readily confounded with a flint or any other species, and the races 
are more readily distinguishable to the eye than by description. 
Zea Mays L. Var. Vaainata, the Pop Corns. 
There is a class of corns which deserve description by themselves 
from their peculiarity of bearing each kernel, as well as the ear, in- 
closed in a husk. These are the Pop Corns, also called Husk corn, 
Texas corn, Paraguay corn, Oregon corn, Rocky Mountain corn, 
Wild corn, California corn, Cow corn, ete. These, through the 
structure of their kernels and the shape of their ears, can be referred » 
to their several agricultural species, so far as we have had sample 
ears. Thus far we have had specimen ears of Sweet, Flint and Dent 
corns of the pod variety, and we have known of two cases where a 
few podded kernels have appeared in crops of the Canada type of 
corn, and have been told, authenticated by specimens, of the occur- 
rence of fully podded ears in crops from Blount’s Prolific dent seed. 
As yet, however, our collections have been insufficient for a careft' 
study. 
InpEx to Sweet Corns.* 
Genesee, No. 17. 
Golden, No. 24. 
Kight-rowed, No. 13. 
Hickox, No. 22. 
Improved, No. 22. 
Landreth, No. 30. 
Landreth’s Sugar No. 80. - 
Mammoth, No. 23. 
Marblehead, No. 2. 
Mammoth, No. 23. 
Minnesota, No. 5. 
Moore’s Concord, No. 19, 
Early, No. 19. 
Early Concord, No, 19. 
Narragansett, No. 3. 
Ne Plus Ultra, No. 33. 
New Triumph, No. 12. 
Orange, No. 16. 
Potter’s Excelsior, No. 27. 
Pratt’s Early, No, 1. 
Red Cob, No. 15. 
River, No. 4. 
Slate Sweet, No. 14. 
Squantum, No. 26. 
Stowell’s Evergreen, No. 32. 
Amber Cream, No, 20. 
Asylum, No. 21. 
Black Mexican, No. 14. 
Sugar, Nos. 14, 25. 
Sweet, No. 14. 
Brighton Orange, No. 16. 
Burr’s Improved, No. 31. 
Jlark’s Old Colony, No. 28. 
Crosby’s Early, No. 18. 
Harly Twelve-rowed, No. 18. 
Darling’s Karly, No. 9. 
Dolly Dutton, No. 7. 
Dwarf Early, No. 10. 
Early Concord, No. 19. Z 
Hcelsior No. 27. 
Genesee No. 17. 
Marblehead No. 2. 
Minnesota No. 5. 
Narragansett, No. 3. 
Orange, No. 16. 
Sweet, No. 11. 
Egyptian, No. 29. 
Kight-rowed Early, No. 11. 
Hwergreen, No. 22. 
Heacelsior, No. 27. 
Extra Early Crosby, No. 18. 
Dwarf, No. 10. 
Marblehead, No. 2. 
Ford’s Early, No. 5. 
Tom Thumb, No. 6. 
Triumph, No. 12. 
Washington Market, No. 29. 
Wyoming, No. 8. 

* Synonyms in Italics. 
