264 THE WHEAT PLANT 



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



T. pyramidale, var. compressum, mihi. 



This variety I obtained from Egypt mixed with the succeeding variety, from 

 which it differs only in the colour of the awn. 



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



T. pyramidale, var. pseudo-compressum, mihi. 



A form of this variety I received from Egypt under the names Tunis wheat 

 and Fayum wheat. 



It is an early, short-strawed form, with the characteristic dense ear of the 

 race. 



Kornicke's T. compactum, var. compressum, appears to be the same. 



Young shoots, erect ; young leaves pubescent. 



Straw, short, rigid, 56-80 cm. (22-32 inches) long ; upper internode solid 

 hollow with thick walls. 



Ear, short and dense, 4-6 cm. long, oblong in section, 10-11 mm. across the 

 face, 15-18 mm. across the 2-rowed side; spikelets 21-23, 3 -grained ; D = 



40-43- 



Empty glume, 9-10 mm. long, apex narrow, apical tooth acute (2, Fig. 161); 



awn of flowering glume 10-13 mm. long. 



Grain, white, flinty or semi-flinty, narrow at the apex, laterally compressed, 

 with a prominent dorsal ridge ; 8-8-4 mm - l n g' 3' mm - broad, 3-5-3-6 mm. 

 thick. 



Ear bearded ; glumes pale red, pubescent ; azvns red ; grain white. 



T. pyramidale, var. copticum, mihi. 



Bin el Bent (Eye of the Girl) (2, Fig. 163). A distinct form received from 

 Egypt, and probably the same as Kornicke's T. compactum, var. copticum, from 

 Abyssinia. 



Young shoots, erect ; young leaves pubescent. 



Straw, short to medium height, 76-105 cm. (about 30-42 inches) high, 

 glaucous ; upper internode hollow with thick walls. 



Ear, yellow-green, short and compressed, dense, 5-8 cm. long, 12 mm. 

 across the face, 20 mm. across the two-ranked side ; spikelets 20-25 ; D = about 

 36 ; awns 14-17 cm. long, scabrid to the base. 



The ears usually taper from the base to the apex and are often curved towards 

 the flat side near the tip. 



Empty glume, 10 mm. long, pale red, pubescent, with prominent lateral nerve ; 

 keel tooth broad and bluntish (i, Fig. 161). 



Grain, white, semi-flinty, laterally compressed, with prominent dorsal hump ; 

 6-5-7-5 mm. long, 2-8-3-2 mm. broad, 3-3-3-6 mm. thick. 



Ear bearded ; glumes pale red, pubescent ; awns black ; grain white. 



T. pyramidale, var. pseudo-copticum, mihi. 



Received with the preceding variety, from which it differs only in the posses- 

 sion of black awns. 



