THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
229—1845. ] 
| SCHOOL 
im j OR, 
THE RUDIMENTS OF BOTANICAL SCIENCE. 
BY JOHN LINDLEY, Ph.D, F.R.S., 
PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON, 
NOW READY, 
NEW EDITION OF DR. LINDLEY’S SCHOOL BOTANY. 
Demy 8vo, with numerous Alterations, and nearly Four Hundred I Uustrations, price 5s. 6d., 
BOTANY; 
[SPECIMEN 
ENDOGENS. 
Its branched 
ears are -ve! ‘kable. 
Egyptian mummies. 
ry remar. 
ALE. AY 
Glumes subulate. Spikelets 2-flow- - \ | l 
ered, with the rudiment of a third 
flower in the middle. Otherwise like 
Triticum, 
de 1.8. Cereale (Rye). Glumes shorter \\' 
than the spikelet. Raehis to 
i The 
we ous d. 
food of the p 
of Germany, but is little used in Eng- 
*yt Rye differs from Wheat in 
ving ‘very narrow 
glumes, and the centre floret 
of each spikelet constantly 
imperfect. 
1. H. hexastichon (Six-rowed Barley, ANN 
Winter Barley, Bere, or Bigg). Spike- \ 
lets all fertile, arranged in 6 rows. \\i\r 
Grain adhering to the palese. —— 
2. H. distichum (Two-rowed or 
.— Corn- 
4 is is ig eee of barley com- 
-monly grown in land. It prefers 
light land. Bread is sometimes 
from its flour ; ‘but it is chiefly used 
for malting, previously to being fer- 
mented for beer. -Malt-is the grain of 
ec forced to germinate, by -which 
dried. 
Sweetness, and then kiln 
‘mediate ones lanceolate, fringe 
‘adhering to'the pales. 
A 
wa Barley diff 
from Rye, which 
it somewhat resembles, ‘in 
it 
having its »spikelets one- 
‘flowered only, and constantly 
‘Fig. CCXLI. Hordeum distichum “with 
3spikelets . sof which the two.lateral 
Bem are sterile, and the central only perfect. 
ea mats ~CCXLIL, -Secaie -Cereale with 
we ES separate, 
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umbel, while the involucels at the base of the partial umbels consist of 
many bracts. ; 
The manner in which 
flowers are arranged is 
alled their inflorescence, 
a sort of branching, 
has.different names 
SCHOOL BOTANY. 
jn which the ‘branches are 
ar The prine’ 
kinds are these :—1. 
peilicels 2 
one point, as-in'the Cherry 
Fi .)'; ‘this -is called 
E cg sae: bellate, as in the Fools 
Parsley (Aithusa Cynapium, Fig. 
XXXIX). The: spike, when: 
the 
Tuft 6. P 
when the pedicels of a racemeare 
themselves branches, “as in ‘the 
Fiorin Grass isstol 
tum, or catkin, is à 
ao ee 
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