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PR O DUCTI O N 



Sect. XVI. 2.3 



younger LInneus, as well as in the fpecles Plantarum of the ^ 

 and is fald to be a native of Egypt, and to be cultivated at Napl 



Id 



ailed 



(C 



m 



crowded with lefs 

 asftivum, fumnrier 



pofitum 

 iwned : 



01 



th 



compound ear. 



h 



; and is faid to be related to triticum 

 but the Ipike is four tinries larger, a hand 



1 



th, concipofcd of lefs fpikes, two faced, alternate, app 



ed, from nine to twelve, the lower ones beins (h 

 one folitary." Supp-l. Plant, p. 115 



d 



the top 



The plant, which was given me, had five tall and thick flems from 



but feemed 



have been plucked up before it was quite 



2 grain, but fhould 



Thefe 



yea 



I 



ripe, whence I cannot judge of the fize of th 



imagine, that it is a fpecies well worthy of attenti( 



which I poffeffed, were fown in the fpring of th 



having obtained them foon enough to fow in the autumn 



they were an inch or two high, !hey were tranfplanted into a moiftifh 



^^ r 



part of my garden ; and though the year has been uncommonly cold 

 and wet, and a great part of the autumn-fown wheat of this country 



99, not 

 When 



blown down upon the ground, and is not yet ripe, vet 



moft 



y root of the Egyptian wheat has from ten to twelve flems, and 



ftands upright on ft 



ftraw about three and a half, or four feet 



high. The beft flems have one principal ear about five inches lono-, 

 with five or fix (horter ones branching but on each fide of it. They 

 begin to appear brown, and I hope will ripen. I have fince found that 



this fpecies of wheat is mentioned in TuU 



name of Smyrna wh 



H 



Hufbandry under the 



dds that it is highly produd 



but 



that account requires a good foil. 

 3. Another method of promoting the prrowth of lateral flems 



fifts in deftroying th 



(hoot 



wh 



this is done, other new 



flems arife from the joint immediately above the root, which in 



wheat 



61 with the earth 



O 



/ 



this account, when wh 



plants are fufficiently fi^rward in refpe6l to the feafon, it is thoi 

 to be advantageous to eat the firfl flem down by fheep to increafe 



o 



quantity 



