DESCRIPTIONS OF TRIBES AND GENERA. 



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a. 



1°. Empty glumes distinctly keeled only in the 

 upper half, rounded or only slightly keeled 

 in the lower half. 



* Spikes long, more or less loose, some- 

 what dorsally compressed. 



a. Tr. sat. vulgare. 

 ** Spike short, dense, distinctly four- 

 sided. . . . p. Tr. sat. compaction. 

 2°. Empty glumes sharply keeled at the base. 



* Fruit short, thick, not compressed, 

 broadly truncate above. 



y. Tr. sat. turgidum. 

 ** Fruit oblong, narrower, somewhat lat- 

 erally compressed, and somewhat acu- 

 minate 6. Tr. sat. durum. 



Tr. sat. vulgare {Tr. vulgare Vill.), common 

 wheat (Figs. 96, 

 97). The princi- 

 pal sub-varie- 

 ties are awnless 

 and bearded 

 (awned) wheats, 

 with naked or 

 hairy, whitish, 

 bluish, black- 

 ish, or reddish 



spikes, 

 been 

 from 

 cient 



It has 



known 



most an- 



times 



(grains found in 

 Egyptian Pyra- 

 mids) ; is gener- 

 ally cultivated 

 as far north as 

 its cultivation is 

 possible (Nor- 

 way, 69° N. Lat., 

 Alps at 1400 

 metres altitude), and its culture is very import 



Fig 



Common Bearded Fig. 97.— Tr. 

 Winter Wheat. Triti- sativum vid- 

 cum sativum vulgare. gare muti- 



cum. 



