Hordeum pratense Huds. 
A slender grass, 1 to 2 feet high, with short, flat leaves and a narrow terminal Spike 
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sheep, and may do injury to the animals in much the same way as the native 
Hordeum jubatum. 
Wild Barley; Squirrel-tail-grass. 
1 to 3 inches long, of short-bearded spikelets. This grass is widely scattered 
throughout the Central and Western States, growing in thin soils, It is appar- 
ently an annual, and is of little or no agricultural value. 
Hordeum pusillum Nutt. Barley-grass. 
This grass is similar to Hordeum pratense, but is usually not so tall, and the outer 
glumes are lanceolate instead of being bristleform, as in that species. It is of 
no agricultural value. 
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Fic, 50. Velvet- grass. (Holeus Fic. 51.—Squirrel-tail-grass. (Hordeum 
lanatus.) jubatum.) 
Hordeum sativum Jessen. Barley. 
Cultivated barley presents many varieties, primarily divided into two-rowed, four- 
The varieties under these races are based upon the 
pear to have 
southwestern Asia. Six-rowed 
i urope; two-rowed barley is now largely cultivated in Eng- 
land and central Europe. -rowed barleys are of later origin than the 
others, and are most generally cultivated in northern Enro] 
The barley erop of dn 87,072,744 bushels, of whi 
amount six States produced over 73,000,000 bushels, California leading with 
Barley is tbe most important cereal of the far north, some 
The four 
United States for 1895 was h 
19,023,618 bushels. ; f rth, : 
of the varieties being cultivated in Norway to latitude 70°. It is employed in 
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