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(9,498 feet in altitude) towards Amy, a little village on its 

 eastern slope, I found innumerable forms of this wild 

 Triticum growing in abundance at an altitude of 5,250 

 feet and less. In some cases the whole ear was black ; in 

 others only the glumes or part of the glumes; in still 

 others the awns alone were black. Sometimes the glumes 

 were completely glabrous, sometimes very hirsute; in 

 some the form of the glume resembled that of Triticum 

 durum (durum wheat), in others the development of the 

 secondary nerve was similar to that of T. monococcum, 

 (einkorn). I had discovered so many forms that no at- 

 tempt at determination could be made. Among these was 

 even T. monococcum aegilipoides, a form I had not at all 

 expected to find. I could therefore only gather specimens, 

 noting their habitat, associations, etc. 



" As soon as I got home I wrote the good news to my 

 friends in Berlin. A short notice of the results of this 

 trip and an article by Professor Schweinfurth on the im- 

 portance of this discovery and on the possibilities which it 

 opened up were published. 



" My trip in 1906 merely established the native habitat 

 of Triticum, dicoccum, dicoccoides. It was still necessary 

 to find out the extent of the distribution, its habit of 

 growth, etc., and I made another trip for this purpose in 

 1907. . . . On this trip I was able to show conclusively 

 that Triticum dicoccum dicoccoides is indigenous to the 

 regions of Mount Hermon and the northern part of the 

 Trans-Jordan. The idea that it is a plant escaped from 

 cidtivation can not be entertained for a moment. In the 

 first place Triticum dicoccum (emmer) is not cultivated 

 anywhere in Syria or Palestine. I have not been able to 

 discover any hybrid or mongrel between this wild wheat 

 and the cultivated forms. Second — and this is the im- 

 portant point — our Triticum dicoccum dicoccoides rarely 



