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Ear bearded, branched ; glumes white, pubescent ; awns white ; grain red. 

 T. turgidum, var. centigranum, Korn. Handb. d. Getr. i. 63 (1885). 

 The form of var. buccale with compound ears, the result of a cross and not 

 constant (Kornicke). 



Ear bearded, branched ; glumes white, pubescent ; awns white ; 

 grain reddish-violet. 



T. turgidum, var. modigenitum, Korn. Arch. f. Biontohgie, ii. 403 

 (1908). 



A form originating from grains of T. durum, var. Schimpen, apparently the 

 product of a cross with a white, villose, branched ear of T. turgidum (Kornicke). 



Ear bearded, simple ; glumes white, pubescent ; awns black ; grain white. 



T. turgidum, var. Salomonis, Korn. Handb. d. Getr. i. 61 (1885). 



A comparatively rare variety, the type of which was obtained by Kornicke 

 from a sample of " Grano tcnere bianco," sent by G. Salomonc from Catania, 

 Sicily, to the Vienna Exhibition in 1873. 



A short dense-eared wheat from Baluchistan has been referred to this variety 

 by Howard. 



Ear bearded, simple ; glumes red, glabrous ; awns red ; grain white. 



T. turgidum Dreischianum, Korn. Handb. d. Getr. i. 60 (1885). 



Kornickc's type was sent to him under the name " Frunicnto bianco " by 

 Dr. Dreisch from the Italian Exhibition held in Paris in 1878. This variety is 

 chiefly confined to the Balkan area, most examples being received from Greece, 

 Bulgaria, and Turkey. 



A winter form from Greece, Bulgaria, and Turkey. 



Young shoots, prostrate or semi-erect ; young leaves pubescent. 



Straw, tall, 130 cm. (about 52 inches) high, hollow with thick walls. 



Ear, 9-11 cm. long, lax, narrow, square, 10-11 mm. across the sides ; spike- 

 lets 22-24, somewhat elongated, 2- to ^-grained ; I) - 22-24 ' aw " s about 13-14 

 cm. long, parallel to the sides of the car (Kar type 2, Fig. 156). 



Empt\ glume , 9 mm. long, apex narrow, apical tooth very short and blunt (3, 

 6, Fig. 152). 



Grain, mealy, large, apex truncate, dorsal ridge prominent ; 8-5 mm. long, 

 4-2-4-4 mm. broad, 3-65 mm. thick. 



Ear bearded, branched ; glumes red, glabrous ; awns red ; grain while. 



T. turgidum, var. pseudocervinum, Korn. Handb. d. Getr. i. 03 (1X85). 



This is one of the most frequently cultivated varieties with compound c;ir*, 

 and may be considered as var. Dreischianum with a branched rachis. 



I have received examples from Turkey under the name Keupely, from 

 Idaho and other parts of the I'nited States as Alaska, Seven-headed, .nul 

 Miracle wheat, and from Greece. 



