298 THE WHEAT PLANT 



Empty glume, 10 mm. long; apex broad; apical tooth blunt and short; 

 flowering glumes of upper spikelets with awns 1-2 cm. long (20, Fig. 166). 

 Grain, flinty, 7 mm. long, 3-5 mm. broad, 3-4 mm. thick. 



Ear beardless ; glumes white, pubescent ; grain red. 

 T. vulgare, var. velutinum, Korn. Handb. d. Getr. i. 45 (1885). 

 A rare variety. Considerable areas of one or two forms of it are cultivated 

 in the United States. 



1 . Forms were received from India with characters similar to those of No. 

 i, var. leucospermum, but with red grain. 



2. Haynes' Blue Stem. A winter form, received from the United States 

 and Australia. 



Young shoots, prostrate or semi-erect. 



Straw, soft, weak, of medium weight, short, 90-110 cm. (about 36-44 inches) 

 long ; leaves glaucous. 



Ear, lax, 10-12 cm. long ; spikelets 19-23 ; D = 19-22 (Ear type i, Fig. 178, 

 but usually shorter). 



Empty glume, 9 mm. long ; apical tooth -5 mm. long, blunt (21, Fig. 166) ; 

 flowering glumes of upper spikelets often have an awn 1-2-5 cm - l n g- 



Grain, flinty, 6-4 mm. long, 3-2 mm. broad, 2-9 mm. thick. 



Similar late forms also from Switzerland, Holland, and Sweden. Jones' 

 Winter Fife, Silver King, and Oakley from the United States are also similar 

 but somewhat earlier, with shorter awns at the tip of the ear. 



3. De Haie, and some selections and hybrids from Germany and Sweden 

 with shorter and denser ear (7-8 cm. long ; D = 24-30), belong to this variety. 



They are all late forms with prostrate young shoots and stout straw of 

 medium height. 



Ear beardless ; glumes red, glabrous ; grain white. 



T. vulgare, var. alborubrum, Korn. Syst. Uebers. 10 (1873). 



A widely distributed variety chiefly grown in warm climates. 



About fifty named forms were obtained, the majority from Spain, Russia, 

 Turkey, India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United 

 States. 



Most of these forms are Spring wheats with lax tapering ears, some of them 

 markedly " tip-bearded." One or two forms with much denser ears came from 

 Holland and France. 



i. Punjab 21. A very early form received from India. It comes into ear 

 at Reading about May 20. 



Young shoots, erect. 



Straw, slender, of medium height, 88-115 cm - (about 32-45 inches) high. 



Ear, lax, narrow, 8-9 cm. long, square, about 10 mm. across the sides ; D = 20. 



Empty glume, 10 mm. long, keeled to the base ; apical tooth acute, i mm. 

 long (5, Fig. 166) ; apex of flowering glume narrow, acute. 



