62 THE SMALL GRAINS 



(TRITICUM SPELTA VULPINUM, AL.) 



5. Glabrous, red chaff. 



Winter Fox, Red Winter Bearded. 



(TRITICUM SPELTA ALBOVELUTINUM, KCKE,) 



6. Pubescent white chaff. 



Velvet White Chaff Winter. 



(TRITICUM SPELTA RUBROVELUTINUM, KCKE.) 



7. Pubescent red chaff. 



Velvet Winter Bearded, Velvet Spring Bearded, Velvet Red 

 Chaff Winter. 



(TRITICUM SPELTA CCERULEUM, AL.) 



8. Pubescent blue chaff. 



Whiter Blue Velvet Bearded, Epeautre bleu barbu. 



58. Emmer wheats (Triticum dicoccum, Schr.). This 

 group has no English name, but is often incorrectly called 

 Spelt in this country. The German name is emmer and 

 the French amidonnier. As the German name is now well 

 known and easily pronounced it should be generally 

 adopted, and the name spelt applied where it belongs. 

 In Russia, where the group is well represented, it is called 

 polba, which name has been invariably but incorrectly 

 translated spelt heretofore. As a matter of fact, very 

 little, if any, true spelt is grown as a field crop in Russia, 

 but a large quantity of emmer is produced annually. 



The culms of emmer are pithy or hollow with an inner 

 wall of pith ; leaves sometimes rather broad, and usually 

 pubescent; spikes almost always awned, very com- 

 pact, and much flattened on the two-rowed sides. The 



