112 BULLETIN 772, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
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 1; spikelet and floret, xX 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 
