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THE HYBRID RESEMBLES THE MALE PARENT 
Compare this plant with the one shown in the preceding illustration, and you will see no real 
difference. Yet this is a hybrid, in the first generation from the Tripsacum x Euchlaena 
cross. The identity between the male parent and the offspring is so close that the female 
parent seems to have done nothing but furnish nourishment for the development of the 
seed. (Fig. 4.) 
