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if present short, weak, and few; rhachilla of the outer grain 1.5-3 mm. 
long, usually glabrous but occasionally with a few weak, short hairs. 
Plants 8-12 dm. tall; late in maturing. 
Specimens of the variety Golden Giant were found under the 
following additional names: Golden Giant Side, Jaune Geant a Grappes, 
Seizure. 
Sparrowbill (Plate XXI, 3, and fig. 14). — Culms erect in early growth, 
large, coarse, glabrous; sheaths dark green and somewhat glaucous at 
period of full heading, scarcely covering the internodes; leaves colored as 
sheaths, medium to extremely wide, margins glabrous; ligules and auricles 
well developed; rhachis often extremely flexuous; panicles thickly branched 
and fruited, compact, stiff but sometimes slightly drooping at the apex, 
the branches appressed, the first whorl of branches usually issuing at a 
normal node but often at a geniculate bend in the rhachis where the 
nodal diaphragm is wanting or rudimentary; spikelets confused in attitude, 
2-grained, rarely 3-grained, double-grains very frequent; glumes light 
green and barely glaucous at period of full heading, short (20-25 mm.), 
8-9-nerved; grains white shading into pale yellow, outer grains remarkably 
short (12-15 mm.), plump, full, short-pointed; lemma of the outer grain 
glabrous, with 7 obscure nerves; awns wanting or rare; basal hairs generally 
present, weak, few, irregular in length (1-5 mm.); rhachilla of the outer 
grain short (2 mm.), glabrous. Plants 8-10 dm. tall; late in maturing. 
Specimens of the variety Sparrowbill were found under the following 
additional names: Daubeney, Dun, Early Blossom, Standard Challenge, 
Swedish Select, White Egyptian. 
• Garton 585 (Plate XXI, 4, and fig. 31). — Culms erect in early growth, me- 
dium large, coarse, hairy near the nodes; sheaths dark green and glaucous 
at period of full heading, scarcely covering the internodes; leaves colored 
as the sheaths, medium wide, margins glabrous; ligules and auricles well 
developed ; rhachis barely flexuous ; panicles somewhat unilateral, 11 although 
the branches are not appressed but rather drooping from the middle out- 
ward, the lowest whorl of branches always issuing from a normal node; 
spikelets pendant in attitude, 2-3-grained, double-grains numerous; glumes 
dark green and slightly glaucous at period of full heading, remarkably long 
(27-32 mm.) and wide, 11-13-nerved; grains dull yellow or white mottled 
11 The classification of Garton 585 is uncertain. Its panicle is intermediate in form between A. sativa 
and A. sativa orientalis. It is placed in the latter group merely for convenience in identification. 
