98 50. Triticum. 10. GRAMINEiE. Fl.end.ph, 



2. Triticum compositum. Many eared wheat. 

 Spike compound; locusta 3-flowered, turgid, ventricose, 



roundish, imbricate, bristled; uppermost flowret barren, 

 awnless. 



Triticum spica multiplici, Raii Syn. 387, 6 ; Gei: em. 66; Park. 1120,4. 

 Triticum compositum, Lin, Suppl. 115. 

 Egyptian wheat. 



Cultivated in fields ; annual ; 



Culm not hollow at top ; leaves smooth, flaccid ; spike 

 thick, less 2-rowed than summer-wheat, mostly villose, 

 bristled ; Iristle long, coloured. 



3. Triticum turgidum. Turgid wheat. 



Spike parallel, compressed ; locusta 4-flowered, ventri- 

 cose, pubescent, imbricate, bristled ; uppermost flowret 

 barren ; glumes obtuse. 



Triticum aristatum spica maxima cinericea, glumis hirsutis, ifazY S^/n. 

 387, 4. 



Triticum turgidum, L. S. P. 126. 



Duckbill wheat. Square gray wheat. Gray pollard wheat. 



Cultivated in fields. 



Leaves smooth; locusta very turgid, velvety, villosej 

 purplish ; bristle red, shining. 



j8. sulmuticum. Glumes awned ; awns short. 



y. aristatum. Glumes awned ; awns as long as the spike. 



Triticum spica villosa quadrata lougiore aristis munitum, Raii Syn. 

 387,3*. 



Triticum lucidum, Park. 1120. 



Triticum aristis ctrcumvallatum, Ger. em. 66. 



Cone wheat. Normandy wheat. Red wheat. 



4). Triticum hylernum. IVtnter ivheai. 



Spikes parallel, compressed, nearly awnless; glumes gih- 

 bous, truncated, mucronate ; base contracted, plaited ; rib 

 obtuse, prominent. 



Triticum spica mutica, Raii Syn. 386, 1 ; Ger. em. 65; Park. 1120. 

 Triticum hjbernum, Lin. S. P. 126. 

 Triticum segetale, var. Sa'.isb, Prod, 27. 

 Triticum vulgare ?, Willd, Hort. Berol. 135. 

 Triticum sativum B, Lam, Enc, Meth, 554. 



Cultivated in fields ; sown in autumn, and reaped the 

 following year. 



p. aristatum. Spikes bristled. 



Triticum aristis circumvallatum, granis et spica rubescentibus, glumis 

 laevibus et splendentibus, Raii Syn. 387, 2. 

 Red-eared bearded wheat. 



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