Fig. 132, Triticum vulgare Vill. WHEAT:—a, A spikelet: b,a glume seen 
from the back; ce, flowering bone seen from the te d, palea; é, grain; f, a 
portion of the axis of the spike; g, pistil and lodicu 
132. TRITICUM Linn. sands 85. 1753. Spikelets 2- to 5-flowered, solitary at 
We notebng of che male Beis i forming & & distichous « spike. Empty g Humes 2, 
rigid, 3- to many- t 
flowering glumes rounded on the back, or boat-shaped, many-nerved, termi- 
apace ote wee: Annual or biennial, erect grasses with flat pug pee 
oO bse 10 oF in Southam urpe and Western estern Asia; one species wi " 
oe in its man, y varieties, is now widely cultivated throughout all temperate 
