LESSON IX 



DIVERSELY SPECIALIZED SPI RELETS 



In Lesson IV, 

 Fig. 22 (page 31), 

 we had an example 

 of fertile and ster- 

 ile spikelets in the 

 same fascicle, the 

 fascicle falling as a 

 whole. Because the 

 type of spikelet 

 showed kinship 

 with grasses having 

 many-flowered lat- 

 erally compressed 

 spikelets, Achy- 

 rodes is placed with 

 them, although in 

 its fascicles falling 

 as a whole it forms 

 an exception. In 

 the grasses we are 

 about to study in 

 the present lesson, 



clustered spikelets ^^^ 53. a, fascicle of ^gopogon 



are the Characteris- B, lemma, and C, palea, spread 



,. • T J.' sterile spikelet; D, lemma and E, 



tie specialization. perfect spikelet. 



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teneUus; 



out, of 



palea of 



