WILD SMALL SPELT 167 



The ears of wild plants are 5-6 cm. long possessing 24-26 spikelets ; those 

 of cultivated specimens are often 8 or 9 cm. long with 30-32 spikelets each 

 about 10 mm. long. 



The yellowish-white glumes are usually clothed with soft inconspicuous 

 hairs, but glabrous forms are met with : Flaksberger's var. Zuccariorii appears 

 to be the pubescent form. 



T. aegilopoides, var. Thaoudar, mihi (2, Fig. 114). 



T. Thaoudar, Reuter (in Bourgeau, PI. Exs., 1860). 



In 1854 Balansa collected wild strong-growing forms of T. aegilopoides 

 at Balamaut Kaive between Smyrna and Magnesia in Asia Minor. Similar 

 robust wild plants were discovered later in Lycia by Bourgeau (1860) ; near 

 Amasia in 1889 by Bornmiiller ; in Northern Syria by Aaronsohn ; and in 1909 in 

 Kurdistan on the borders of Persia by Strauss. 



The Turkish name for these wild forms of Triticum as well as for rye (Secale 

 cereale) and Darnel (Lolium temulentum) is " Thaoudar," and Bourgeau's speci- 

 mens were labelled Triticum Thaoudar by Reuter. I have critically examined 

 and compared authentic specimens of all the recorded varieties of T. aegilopoides, 

 and find that the Asiatic types usually have slightly broader and thicker ears 

 with fewer spikelets than those of Serbian and Greek plants ; the glumes of the 

 former are sometimes tinged a pinkish colour, and in addition, many, though 

 not all of them, have a long awn (9-10 cm.) on the upper as well as on the lower 

 flowering glume. 



This is the common variety of Asia Minor, although plants indistinguishable 

 from the European variety boeoticum and intermediates appear with it. 



The glumes, which are yellowish-white, are generally pubescent, and the outer 

 part between the strong lateral nerve and the margin of the empty glume is 

 sometimes broad and rounded as in cultivated T. monococcum. 



The ears are shorter and laxer and the spikelets fewer and stouter than those 

 of var. boeoticum, and in wild specimens usually 4-5 cm. long and -8--9 cm. wide, 

 having 16-18 spikelets each 10-15 mm. long. When cultivated the ears attain 

 a length of 8 or 9 cm. with 30 or more spikelets. 



SECTION II. Young shoots prostrate ; culms decumbent at the base 

 (" winter type ") ; young leaves narrow (4-5 mm. across) and dark green, the 

 habit of the young plants in winter resembling that of T. hermonis. 



1. Glumes and awns black .... var. Paricici, mihi. 



2. Glumes reddish-yellow, awns black . . var. Larionozvi, mihi. 

 T. aegilopoides, var. Pandci, mihi. 



T. monococcum, var. Pantid, Flaksb. Bull. App. Botany, Petrograd, vi. 682 



A wild black-glumed variety (4, Fig. 114) discovered by D. Larionow in 

 1909 near Balaklava in the Crimea, growing with vars. boeoticum and Larionozvi 

 (see below), possibly the same as T. nigrescens, PanCici (in PL Exsicc. et lift., 

 Korn. Handb. d. Getr. i. 109, 1885). 



In the Fielding Herbarium at Oxford are four specimens of this variety 



