﻿Selection 
  of 
  Elementary 
  Species 
  105 
  

  

  tombs 
  have 
  recently 
  been 
  opened 
  by 
  the 
  Ger- 
  

   man 
  Oriental 
  Society. 
  In 
  them 
  were 
  found 
  

   quantities 
  of 
  the 
  tares 
  of 
  the 
  Triticum 
  dicoccum, 
  

   one 
  of 
  the 
  more 
  primitive 
  forms 
  of 
  wheat. 
  In 
  

   other 
  temples 
  and 
  pyramids 
  and 
  among 
  the 
  

   stones 
  of 
  the 
  walls 
  of 
  Dashur 
  and 
  El 
  Kab 
  

   studied 
  by 
  linger, 
  different 
  species 
  and 
  varie- 
  

   ties 
  of 
  cereals 
  were 
  discovered 
  in 
  large 
  quan- 
  

   tities, 
  that 
  showed 
  their 
  identity 
  with 
  the 
  pres- 
  

   ent 
  prevailing 
  cultivated 
  races 
  of 
  Egypt. 
  

  

  The 
  inhabitants 
  of 
  the 
  lake-dwellings 
  in 
  

   Switzerland 
  possessed 
  some 
  varieties 
  of 
  cereals, 
  

   which 
  have 
  entirely 
  disappeared. 
  They 
  are 
  

   distinguished 
  by 
  Heer 
  under 
  special 
  names. 
  

   The 
  small 
  barley 
  and 
  the 
  small 
  wheat 
  of 
  the 
  

   lake-dwellers 
  are 
  among 
  them. 
  All 
  in 
  all 
  there 
  

   were 
  ten 
  well 
  distinguished 
  varieties 
  of 
  cereals, 
  

   the 
  Panicum 
  and 
  the 
  Set 
  aria 
  or 
  millet 
  being 
  of 
  

   the 
  number. 
  Oats 
  were 
  evidently 
  introduced 
  

   only 
  toward 
  the 
  very 
  last 
  of 
  the 
  lake-dwelling 
  

   period, 
  and 
  rye 
  is 
  of 
  far 
  later 
  introduction 
  into 
  

   western 
  Europe. 
  Similar 
  results 
  are 
  attained 
  

   by 
  the 
  examination 
  of 
  the 
  cereals 
  figured 
  by 
  the 
  

   Romans 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  period. 
  

  

  All 
  these 
  are 
  archaeologic 
  facts, 
  and 
  give 
  but 
  

   slight 
  indications 
  concerning 
  the 
  methods 
  of 
  

   cultivation 
  or 
  the 
  real 
  condition 
  of 
  the 
  culti- 
  

   vated 
  races 
  of 
  that 
  time. 
  Virgil 
  has 
  left 
  us 
  

   some 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  requirements 
  of 
  method- 
  

  

  