Feb. 33,1924 
Teosinte Maize Hybrids 
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Durango strain; none were obtained with the trapezoidal seeds typica 
of the Florida form. In the brachytic hybrid, however, several plants 
were found with seeds indistinguishable in form from those of the Florida 
teosinte, but much smaller in size and of very different color. In addi¬ 
tion to recovering the seed shape, it should be noted that among the 
teosintelike inflorescences there are many having seeds which greatly 
exceed the seeds of teosinte in size, though exhibiting the shape charac¬ 
teristic of Durango teosinte. (See Plate 8.) 
The brachytic variation has in its ancestry a pop corn with strongly 
beaked seeds, but the degree of beaking on the seeds of the brachytic 
strains has diminished until only rarely are the beaks perceptible. It 
was not without surprise, therefore, that inflorescences in the F 2 of the 
brachytic-teosinte hybrid were obtained with a fantastic development of 
the beaked character, an example of which is shown in Plate 7, C. 
