TRIT1GUM CANINUM. 



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TRITICUM CANINUM. 



HUDSON. SMITH. HOOKKR AND ARNOTT. PARNELL. 



SINCLAIR. DEAKIN. KOCH. GREVILLE. LINDLEY. BABINGTON. 



KNAPP. SCHRADER. HOST. OEDER. WITHERING. HULL. RELHAN. 



ABBOT. KUNTH. MACREIGHT. 



PLATE LXV. B. 



Triticum biflorum, 

 alpinum, 



Elymus caninus, 

 



Agropyrum caninum, 



MITTEN. 



DON. 



LINNAEUS. WILLDENOW. 



LEERS. EHRHART. 



BEAUVAIS. LINDLEY. 



The Fibrous-rooted Wheat- Grass, 



Triticum Wheat. 



Caninum Dog. 



Fibrous-rooted Wheat-Grass, or Bearded Wheat-Grass, is a 

 -L valuable and early Grass. 



Growing usually iu damp shady places, yet thriving when cultivated 

 in fields. 



Common in England, Scotland, and Ireland. 



Native of Siberia, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Lapland, Germany, 

 Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, and the United States. 



Stern slender, upright, circular, and polished, having four or five 

 broad, lanceolate acute, dark green, shining leaves, with smooth striated 

 sheaths, upper one extending beyond its leaf, and having a very brief 

 blunt ligule at its apex. Inflorescence spiked. Spike lengthy and 

 delicate. Spikelets oval, sessile, placed in two rows on the zigzag 

 rachis, and of four or five awned florets. The calyx composed of two 

 rough, awned, three-ribbed, equal-sized glumes. Florets of two palese, 

 exterior one of basal floret hirsute, five-ribbed, of same length as 



