CHAPTER LX. 
CLASSIFICATION OF GRASSES BY THE 
“SEEDS” (GRAINS). 
I. “Seed” rounded (Millet-seed’ type). Caryopsis 
ovoid or sub-globose, devoid of distinct groove, 
and distending the awnless palex, or falling 
out free. 
A. Glumes cuspidate, ‘‘ fruit” yellowish. 
Phleum pratense. 
The student should familiarise himself with the “seed” 
of Phlewm pratense, as a type, and an important grass 
easily obtained pure, but sometimes with minute round 
seeds of weeds intermixed. 
Phleum pratense, L. (Fig. 45). 
Palea 2°3mm. long, five-ribbed, with a short point, 
delicate but hard, smooth, with a silvery lustre. Inner 
pale two-nerved. Closely investing the yellow-brown 
1 This term does not necessarily imply any botanical relationship 
with the true Millets (Panicum), but merely that the caryopsis is short 
and broad as in these grasses. 
