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Fig. 605. Hordeum murinum. Linn. Sp. PL 85. 1753. Wall 

 Barley. — A rather stout, csespitose annual, 3 to 6 dm. high, with 

 short, fiat leaves, inflated sheaths, and compressed spikes 5 to 10 

 cm. long. Spikelets, including the awns, 4 cm. long, the glumes 

 of the middle spikelet lanceolate and conspicuously ciliate on the 

 margins. — On ballast New York. New Jersey, and Delaware, and 

 along the Pacific coast from British Columbia to southern Cali- 

 fornia. [Europe.] April-July. 



