VARIETIES OP WHEAT. 161 



4 Red Wheats, velvet husked. 



5 Yellow " smooth chaffed. 



6 " " velvet husked. 



7 Liver " smooth chaffed. 



8 " " velvet husked. 



BEARDED OR SPRING WHEATS. 



1 White Spring Wheat. 



2 Red Spring Wheat. 



3 Yellow Spring Wheat. 



4 Hoary Spring Wheat. 



Among the varieties of winter wheat which have 

 been cultivated to any extent in this country may be 

 mentioned the common White Phnt, improved White 

 Flint, the White Provence Wheat, the Wheatland Eed, 

 the Tuscan Bald, the Skinner Wheat, the Golden Drop, 

 the White Blue Straw, known in Ohio as the Blue 

 Stem, the Aguira Wheat, the Verplanck, the Canada 

 Flint, the Bearded Mediterranean, Old White Flint, the 

 Club, the Genesee, the Egyptian, the Old Red Chaff, 

 the Quaker Wheat, the Yellow Bearded, the Kentucky 

 Red, the Bald Mediterranean, the Red Blue Stem, and 

 innumerable others. ' 



Among the spring varieties may be mentioned the 

 Italian Spring Wheat, Tea Wheat, or Siberian Wheat, 

 Black Sea Wheat, Black Bearded and Red Bearded 

 Wheats, the Scotch Wheat, Talavera Wheat, the Black 

 Tea Wheat, the Canada Club, the Fife, &c. 



All varieties may be easily modified by cultivation. 

 The bearded may become beardless^ and vice versa ; the 

 red may pass into the white varieties, and the winter is 

 easily modified so as finally to become a spring wheat. 



A variety known as spelt, or spelt wheat ( Triticum 

 spelta), is shown in Fig. 132, while a summer variety is 

 shown in Fig. 133, Egyptian wheat in Pig. 134, and 

 one-seeded wheat ( Triticum monococcum), or St. Peter's 

 corn, in Fig. 135. 

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