PLend.ph. 10. GRAMINEiE. 44. Hordeum. 89 
Cultivated like the preceding, with which it is generally 
confounded. 
Spike slightly compressed; beards nearly twice as long 
as the spike; cariopsides 20 to 45, those on the sides spread 
out, the others adpressed, more numerous but many im- 
perfect. 
0. nudum. Glume not adhering to the cariopsis. 
Triticum spica hordei, Raii Syn, 387, 7. 
Hordeum nudum, Ger. em. 72. 
Zeopyrum, sive Tritico-speHum, Park. 1123. 
Hordeum vulgare j8 cceleste, Lin.S. P. 125. 
Naked barley. Black barley. Barley wheat. 
Grown by few, but praised by them as excellent for 
malting. 
JV. 45. ZEOCRITON. C. Bauhin. Barley . 
Locuslce 3 in each tooth of the rachis, 1 -flowered; the 
middle floret fertile, the two lateral florets neutral or bar- 
ren ; spathelles 2, awlshaped ; lo>ver spathellules bristle- 
pointed ; upper spa the Hide not nicked, blunt; lodicule blunt, 
not nicked, smooth ; ovary bearded at the tip ; stigmata 
villose; cariopsis husked, furrowed, — Rachis toothed, joint- 
ed, spiked ; spike simple. 
1 . Zeocriton distichon . Two-rowed barley . 
Lateral flowers beardless; cariopsides angular, lying one 
over the other. 
Hordeum distichum, Raii Syn. 388, 1 ; Ger. em. 70; Park. 1130; Lin. 
S. P. 125. 
Zeocriton distichum, Palis, de Beauvais, 
Barley. Spring barley . 
Cultivated largely for malting, especially in England: 
the decorticated seeds make a cooling and demulcent drink 
by being boiled in water; and the flour is made in some 
parts into bread, which must be baked almost as soon as 
it is made up, as it grows sour very soon. The wort made 
of the malt is antiseptic, and still more the yeast, or froth 
that collects during the fermentation, which is also a va- 
luable febrifuge. The fermented wort, of which there are 
many varieties, is stimulant, cordial, and well supplies the 
want of wine. 
Beard more than twice as long as the spike. 
/3. nudum . Spathelle not adhering to the cariopsis. 
Turkie barley, Park. 1129. 
Seeds elliptic, tawny, glabrous. 
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