WHEAT 51 



(TRITICUM TURGIDUM JODURA, AL.) 



10. Pubescent blue chaff, red kernels. 



Soft or Semi-hard Winter English Rivet, Heidelberg 

 Blue Velvet, Paines Defiance, Veneto. 



B. COMPOSITE SPIKES 

 (TRITICUM TURGIDUM PSEUDOCERVINUM, KCKE.) 



11. Glabrous, reddish chaff and awns, pale yellow kernels. 



Soft or Semi-hard Spring Castillian Red, Liban, Com- 

 posite, Miracle White Chaff. 



(TRITICUM TURGIDUM PLINIANUM, KCKE.) 



12. Glabrous red chaff, black beards. 



Hard Spring Semikoloska. 



(TRITICUM TURGIDUM MIRABILE, KCKE.) 



13. Pubescent red chaff, white or yellow kernels. 



Soft or Semi-hard Miracle. 



(TRITICUM TURGIDUM LINN^ANUM, AL.) 



14. Pubescent red chaff, red kernels. 



Soft or Semi-hard Miracle Red Chaff, Wonderwheat. 



50. Durum wheats (Triticum durum, Desf.). The 

 durum wheats, as before stated, are, many of them, very 

 similar to certain poulard varieties. As a rule, how- 

 ever, the heads are not so thick and the kernels are longer 

 and usually much harder. The plants are taller than those 

 of common wheats, with stems either pithy within, or 

 hollow with an inner wall of pith, or in a few varieties, 

 simply hollow as in the common wheats. The leaves are 

 usually glabrous, but have a hard cuticle, and are almost 



