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florets. In our other species of wild oats, A. barbata Brot., the 

 pedicels are more slender, the spikelets pendulous, and the teeth of 



FIG. 58. Wild oats, Avena fatua. Plant, X I ; spikelet and floret, X 2. 



the lemma are prolonged into delicate awns. These species of wild 

 oats are common on the Pacific coast, where they are weeds, but are 



