Southern White.
Stalk twelve feet or more in height, with large, luxuriant foliage; ears single, often in pairs, short and very thick, sixteen to twenty-two rowed; kernel remarkably large, milk-white, wedge-formed, indented at the outer end; cob red.
Yellow Horse-Tooth.
Southern Yellow.
Plant similar to that of the White Horse-tooth; kernel very large, bright-yellow, indented; cob red.
Extensively cultivated throughout the Southern States, but not adapted to the climate of the Middle or Northern.
EGG-PLANT.
Solanum melongena.
The Egg-plant is a native of Africa, and is also indigenous to Tropical America. It is a tender annual, with an erect, branching stem, and oblong, bluish-green, powdered leaves. The flowers are one-petaled, purple, and produced on short stems in the axils of the branches; the fruit is often somewhat oblong, but exceedingly variable in form, size, and color; the seeds are small, yellowish, reniform, flattened, and retain their germinative properties seven years.