MALE FLOWERS OF THE EUCHLAENA 
much like the familiar ‘‘tassels’’ of maize, to which the Euchlaena is 
But they are also so much like the staminate flowers of the 
Euchiaena x Tripsacum hybrid, shown in the next photograph, that no one 
could tell the difference. Photograph natural size. (Fig. 8.) 
They are 
closely related. 
