PLATE 7 
A. —Lateral inflorescence from the plant represented in Plate 6, A. The husks have 
f>een removed to show the character of the spikes. 
B. —Individual spikes from the prophyllary branch of the inflorescence shown at 
the left in A. 
C. —The most maizelike and most teosintelike inflorescences obtained in the second 
generation of the ramose maize X teosinte hybrid. The teosintelike seeds resemble 
the triangular seeds of Durango teosinte rather than the seeds of the Florida teosinte 
parent. Natural size. 
D. —Spikes from the second generation of brachytic maize X teosinte, showing 
extreme form of beaked seeds. Natural size. 
Beaked seeds were a characteristic of one of the great-grandparents of the brachytic 
maize, but were not noticeable in the immediate brachytic plant which served as 
the female parent of the brachytic-teosinte hybrid. 
