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Fic. 131. Secale cereale L. RYE.—a, A spike with upper leaf; b, a spikelet: ¢, 
flowering glume, dorsal view; 7, palea; g, grain. 
_ 131. SECALE Linn. Sp. Pl. 84. 1753. Spikelets usually 2-flowered, solitary 
and sessile at the alternate notches of the continuous rachis. pty glumes 
rigid, very narrow, and subulate-pointed; flowering glumes broader, sharply 
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pilose at the apex, free within the fruiting glume. Annual, e 2 
flat leaves and dense terminal spikes. In the cultivated forms the axis of the 
Species 2, Southern Europe, Southern and Central Asia: one, Secale cereale, 
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