EMMER 



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Two, or occasionally three, are present in each spikelet. 



The colour of the grain is chiefly white, yellowish, or red as in other 

 races, but in recently harvested grains of the Abyssinian varieties Arraseita 

 and Schimperi it is a deep purple tint, the anthocyan pigment being present 

 in the " chlorophyll layer " of the peri- 

 carp, and to a lesser extent in some of the 

 adjacent parenchyma. 



The grains are comparatively narrow 



Flo. 127. (Jnims of the 

 spikclets of one side of 

 an car of Kmmer (7". 

 Jifitccum) (nat. size). 



MM 



MM 

 MM 



FIG. 126. (J reins of Emmcr (T. 

 duoccvm). Front, back, and 

 tide views (nat. size). 



and pointed at both ends and more or less 

 laterally compressed, with a flattish or hollowed 

 ventral surface and a narrow furrow (Figs 

 126, 127) ; each has a conspicuous " brush " 

 of hairs. A cross section of the grain is some- 

 what triangular, with fairly distinct basal angles. 

 In some varieties the endosperm is Hinty, in 

 others mealy. 



Well-developed grains measure from 72 to 

 9 mm. in length, 2 85 to 3-4 mm. in width, and 

 2 6 to 3-1 mm. through from front to back. They 

 are slightly more compressed laterally than the 

 grains of Dinkel or Large Spelt ('/'. Speltti) ; 

 the average ratio of length, breadth, and thick- 

 ness 100 : 37 7 : 34 i. 



The produce of the thrashed ear of the 

 " spelt " forms, i.e. the " husked " grain or 

 Vesen," consists of 73 to 75 per cent of cary- 

 opses and 21 to 25 per cent of chatT (glumes 

 and pieces of the rachis), and weighs from 40 

 to 49 kg. per hectolitre. 



