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TRITICUM 5. var. album, white-eared bearded wheat. Moris. 



Hist. iii. 175. 

 In R. S. Linn. Sys. Veg. the following arrangement of the varieties 



of Triticum astivum occurs, i. p. 762. 

 1 . Varieties with smooth ears and awnless spikelets or ears. 

 a. Trit. vulgare autumnale, with white spikes and yellow corn. 



b. , with yellowish-red ears and yellow 



corn, grain larger than in var. a. 



c. a. Trit. vulgare autumnale, with white ears and white grain, 

 seed almost round. 



c. b. Trit. vulgare autumnale, with longer and more transparent 



grain. 



d. a. Trit. vulg. vernum, spike yellowish-red, smaller than var. b. 



d. b. , with grain much larger, culms more 



slender. 



e. a. Trit. vulg. vernum, spike short, four-angled, reddish-brown. 



e. b. , spike whitish. See Trit. compactum. 



2. Varieties with smooth spikes, and awned. 



f. a. Trit. vulg. autumnale, spike reddish-brown, awn deciduous 



when ripe, seed large, culms feeble, husks glaucous, plum- 

 coloured. 



f. b. Trit. vulg. autumnale, spike white, shorter, culms less, and 



feeble. 



g. a. Trit. vulg. autumnale, spike white, fleshy, somewhat four- 



angled, awns partly deciduous. 



g. b. Trit. vulg. vernum, awns long, straight, spike short. 



h. a. , autumnale, spike white, ruffous, compact, awns 



divaricate, permanent. 



h. b. Trit. vulg. autumnale, spikes, awns reddish-brown, divari- 

 cate. 



h. y. Trit. vulg. autumnale, spikes shorter. 



i. a. , spikes ruffous, compact, awns 



crowded, ruffous. 



i. b. Trit. vulg. autumnale,, spikes short, thick (similar to Triti- 

 cum compositwri). 



k. Trit. vulg. autumnale, spike white, fleshy, awns black, seed 

 white, largp, and turgid. 



1. a. Trit. vulg. autumnale, spike white, rather slender, awns 

 black, culms slender, weak. 



1. b. Trit. vulg. autumnale, spike whitish, awns black, culm 

 slender, hollow, husks shining. 



