SMALL SPELT 177 



Glumes pale reddish-yellow or brownish, pubescent, dull. 



T. monococcum, var. Hornemanni, Korn. Handb. d. Getr. i. 112 (1885). 



T. Horneman, Clemente (in Herrera, Agric. gen. i. 3, 1818). 



T. monococcum, b. spica pallide rubra pubescente, Lam. Encyclop. ii. 560 

 (1786). 



This is the largest and most commonly cultivated variety of T. monococcum 

 (i, Fig. 117), ripening at Reading about the middle of June, resembling in this 

 respect \ax.flavescens . 



It is grown in small quantity in Switzerland and Spain and the Eastern 

 Caucasus (Tersk Government), and was formerly cultivated by Tatars in the 

 Crimea. 



The commonest representative of this variety is a spring form with 

 caespitose young shoots, and stout straw of medium height (110-120 cm.). 

 The leaf-blades are about 10 mm. across and yellowish-green. 



The ears are pale reddish brown from 6 to 10 cm. long, 10 to 1 1 mm. across 

 the 2 -ranked side and 4 to 5 mm. across the narrow face. The number of 

 spikelets 25-40. 0=40-50. 



The spikelets are 11-12 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, usually ripening one grain 

 in each, although spikelets with two fully developed caryopses are frequent. 



The glumes near the tips are clothed with short inconspicuous hairs and the 

 flowering glume of the lower flower bears an awn about 9 cm. long, that of the 

 second upper flower having only a short awn 3-6 mm. long. 



The caryopses are 8-9 mm. long. 



