FIG. 83. 



DIAGRAMMATIC SUMMARY OF THE PRIMARY 

 CHARACTERS OF THE TRIBES 



SERIES I POAT^E 



Spikelets laterally compressed; florets mostly falling from the 

 persistent glumes 



1. FESTUCE^J, fescue tribe 

 Spikelets many-flowered. 

 Glumes relatively small. 

 Lemmas awned from summit 



or awnless. 



Inflorescence a panicle. 

 [Contains fescues, brome- 

 grasses, and blue-grass.] 



2. HORDED, barley tribe 

 Spikelets 1- to many-flowered, 



sessile on opposite sides of a 



jointed rachis, forming a 



spike. 

 Rachis rather than spikelets 



specialized. 

 Inflorescence a solitary spike. 



[Contains wheat, rye, and 

 barley.] 



3. AVENE.E, oat tribe 

 Like Festucese, but glumes en- 

 larged and florets fewer in 

 number. 



Rachilla joints short. 

 Lemmas awned from the back. 

 Inflorescence a panicle. 

 [Contains oats.] 



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FIG. 84. 



FIG. 85. 



