Bui. 1074, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate XLVIII, 



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Prelude (A). 



Humpback (B). 



Spike, face view, natural size: glumes from lower, central, and upper portions of spike, natural 

 size; kernels in three positions and in transverse section, magnified 3 diameters. 



