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Grain, flinty, large, dorsal ridge prominent, apex truncate ; 7-5 mm. long, 

 3-7 mm. broad, 3-7 mm. thick. 



2. Nonette de Lausanne. Received from France ; cultivated in Italy under 

 the name Andriolo rosso pelosa. 



A winter form grown formerly in England under the name Giant St. 

 Helena wheat. It is a prolific wheat, fairly resistant to frost and grows satis- 

 factorily on comparatively poor strong soils. 



Young shoots, semi-erect ; young leaves almost glabrous. 



Straw, very tall, stout, 152 cm. (about 60 inches) high ; upper internode hollow. 



Ear, of medium density, pendent when ripe, 8-9-5 cm. long, square, 12-14 

 mm. across the sides; spikelets 27-31, 3- to 4-grained ; = 29-32; awns 9-10 

 cm. long (Ear type i, Fig. 156). 



Empty glume, 8 mm. long, with acute apical tooth, 1-5-2 mm. long, and dis- 

 tinct lateral tooth (Forms i, 4, Fig. 152). 



Grain, more or less flinty, long and somewhat narrow with indistinct dorsal 

 ridge ; 8-3 mm. long, 3-9 mm. broad, and 3-6 mm. thick. Closely similar forms 

 were received from Bulgaria and Greece and from the United States under the 

 name Ratel, and as Gigante Milanese from Italy, France, and Spain. 



3. A form received from Turkey under the name Hudavendigar resembles 

 the preceding, but has narrower, square ears 9-11 mm. across the sides, divergent 

 awns, and smaller semi-flinty grains narrowed at the apex, with a prominent 

 dorsal ridge ; 6-8-7 mm. long, 3-5-3-7 mm. broad, 3-5-3-8 mm. thick. 



4. Bed Eivet ; Clock Wheat. 



Young shoots, semi-erect ; young leaves almost glabrous. 



Straw, tall, stout, 130-132 cm. (about 52 inches) high ; upper internode 

 hollow with thick walls. 



Ears, dense, 7-5-9 cm. long, square, 12-14 mm. across the sides ; spikelets 

 28-36, 3- to 4-grained ; D = 38-40 ; awns divergent, 8-9 cm. long, pale red (Ear 

 type i, Fig. 159). 



Empty glume, 6-7 mm. long, apex narrow ; apical tooth narrow, acute, 1-5 

 mm. long (4, Fig. 152). 



Grain, starchy, laterally compressed, dorsal ridge prominent ; 7 mm. long, 

 3-45 mm. wide, 3-65 mm. thick. 



The term Rivet is obscure ; its first recorded use is by Tusser in his Fine 

 hundred pointes of good Husbandrie (ed. 1580 ; not in the first ed. 1573). 



White wheat or else red, red riuet or whight, 

 far passeth all other for land that is light, 



White pollard or red, that so richly is set : 

 for land that is heauie is best ye can get. 



So Turkey or Purkey wheat, many do loue : 

 because it is flourie as others aboue. 



This wheat is often erroneously termed " Rivett's wheat," but the word 

 rivet is correctly used in the plural rivets in a generic sense for this and other 

 varieties of turgidum or samples of their grain. Red Rivet wheat also had 

 various other names such as Pendule or Pendulum wheat (doubtless on account 



