Ss A Handbook of Nebraska Grasses. 
Usually the lowest bracts are empty and are then called 
glumes (fig. 8, F). Sometimes the glumes are absent or there 
may be 3-4 glumes. In the axil of each succeeding bract, the 
lemma (fig. 8, E) is a flower (fig. 8, B, C), which is subtended 
and usually enveloped by a bract, the palea (fig. 8, I). The 
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lemma often bears a stiff bristle, the awn, which is covered by 
backwardly turned hairs. 
A flower consists of 3 stamens (sometimes 1, 4, or 6) (fig. 7, 
B), an ovary (fig. 7, D and 8, B), composed of three carpels 
which bear two feathery papillose stigmas (fig. 7, C), and the 
lodicules. 
