TRITICUM JUNCEUM. 1P3 



TRITICUM JUNCEUM. 



LINNAEUS. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. KOCH. WITHERING. 



SMITH. PARNELL. LINDLEY. GREVILLE. WILLDENOW. HULL. 



KNAPP. DICKSON. SCHRADER. HOST. OEDER. HUDSON. BABINGTON. 



REICHENBACH. KUNTH. MACREIGHT. DEAKIN. 



PLATE LXIV. B. 



Agropyrum junceum, LINDLEY. BEAUVAIS. 



The Rusky Sea Wkeat- Grass. 

 Triticum Rubbed. Junceum A rush. 



TRITICUM. Linnaeus. The Wheat-Grass is represented in Great Britain 

 by five species; they have solitary spikelets, and with two nearly equal-sized 

 glumes. The British examples are much more diminutive than the annual 

 foreign species which are cultivated in this country for bread. The name 

 is derived from the Latin tritum, and signifies thrashed or beaten, in allusion 

 to the manner in which the corn is extracted from the ear. 



FOUND on sandy sea-shores, where it is useful in binding the 

 loose sand. It has no agricultural merits. 



Common in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, 

 Spain, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, West Asia, and North Africa. 



Stem circular, upright, smooth, and having five or six lengthy smooth 

 glaucous leaves, with smooth somewhat striated sheaths, the upper 

 one shorter than its leaf; and having at its apex a brief membranous 

 ligule. Inflorescence spiked, the spikelets oval in form, sessile, and 

 in two alternate rows on a zigzag smooth rachis. Calyx consisting of 

 two obtuse about equal-sized, smooth, six prominent-ribbed, glumes. 

 Florets of two paleae, the exterior one of basal floret smooth, five- 

 ribbed, and of the same length as the calyx; inner palea having two 



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