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THE RUDIMENTS OF BOTANICAL SCIENCE. 
BY JOHN LINDLEY, Ph.D, F.R.S, 
PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON, 
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[SPECIMEN OF THE WORK.] 
ENDOGENS. 147| 12 
SCHOOL BOTANY. 
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Egyptian mummies. Its branched 
ears are very remarkable. 
umbel, while the involucels at the base of the partial umbels consist of 
many bracts. 
SECALE. 
ulate. Spikelets 2-flow- 
Glumes sub 3 
ered, with the rudiment of a third y called their ¿nfloresce 
flower in the middle. Otherwise like \ \ Wy b 
Triticum. 
. _ 1.8. Cereale (Rye). Glum 
than the spikelet. Rac’ 
| welds, Th 
es shorter | 
is tough. 
Fields i 
his 
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wee 
the common food of the peasantry 
Arges ob but is little used in Eng- 
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/ having very- small 
of each spikelet constantly 
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Fig. XXXIX. 
in which the branches are’ 
imperfect, Ge 
arranged. The ae s 
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Bi X. Scales obtuse, 
fring Styles feathery. Ov, ’ 
villous at the end. i i 
sessile upon a broad plate. 
ce 
the Daisy (Bellis perennis 
1. H. hecastichon (Six-rowed Barley, py hate wh 
. Winter Barley, Bere, or Bigg). Spike- \ d 
| lets all fertile, arranged in 6 rows. £ 
} Gr i adhering to the paleæ. — }\\ 
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RSS : 
Fig. XX XVII. Fig. XX XVIII. 
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a. 
ery 
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olf ; Ah pa 
3 | monly grown in England. It prefers peduncle, or axis, as in R 
t light land. Bread i ti d (Plantago lanceolata). 
from me flour ; but it is chiefly a raceme, when the flowe 
or ing, previously to being fer- 
mented for ak tist in of stal along a common axis, 
ore which ‘in the Currant. he 
uires sweetness, and then kiln when the flowers of a race 
£ all same level, as in Candy 
aà H.murinum( Wall Barley). Lateral 3 T Iberis). he pa 
owers barren. Glumes of the inter- : 
mediate ones lanceolate, fringed. Grain when the pedicels of a raceme 
adhering to the paleæ. 
and waste w 
Fig. CCXLI. Hordeum distichum with á 
3 spikelets separate, of which the two lateral XL in a spathe (Fig. XXXVIII. ;) 
are sterile, and the central only perfect, Sg 2 an @menium, or catkins is a 
Fe. CCXLIT, Becaie Cereale with a 4 z 
Spikelet separate, 
