Pl.end.ph. 10. GRAMINEAS. 49. Agropvrum. 97 
& Leersianum . Locust (B oblong, mostly 5-flowered ; spa- 
thelles and spathellules awned ; awns twice the length of the 
spathelle. 
Triticum Leersianum, Schreber. 
Triticum repens, FI. Dan. 748. 
Triticum sepinum, Thuill. FI. Par. 67. 
IX. 50. TRITICUM. Pliny. Wheat: 
Locusta 1 sessile in each tooth of the rachis, 3 or 
4-flowered ; 2 lower flowerets sessile, opposite, fertile ; up- 
permost often abortive ; spatkelles broad, boatshaped, nearly 
equal, opposite, toothed, ending in a short bristle; spathellules 
lower, toothed, ending in a short bristle ; upper slightly 
nicked ; lodicule ovate, not notched, hairy ; ovary bearded 
at the tip; style 2-parted ; stigmata feathered; cariopsis 
husked, furrowed. — Rachis toothed, jointed, spiked; spike 
simple ; locust ce crowded, imbricate. 
Farina of the seed is in general use as food for mankind* 
very nutritious on account of the gluten which it contains, 
and which is in greater proper: ion in the wheats- grown 
in warm countries than in cold ; seed used for the manu- 
facture of starch, and it is malted and fermented into a kind 
of beer called mum ; husks of the seeds used as a food for 
horses and swine ; straw cut into chaff given to horses as a 
mechanical stimulus to the appetite. 
a. Cariopsis Jree ; rachis flexible; glume coriaceous . 
1. Triticum cestivum . Summer wheat . 
Spike parallel, compressed, bristled ; glumes glabrous, 
bristled, truncated ; base contracted, plaited ; bristle from 
the base, obtuse, very short. 
Triticum aestivum, Raii Syn. 387, 6 * ; Lin. S. P . 126, 
Triticum trimestre, Park. 1121. 
Triticum vulgare, Fill. Delph. 2, 153. 
Triticum segetale, Salts. Prod. 27. 
Triticum vulgare a, Willd. Hort. Berol. 1, 135. 
Triticum sativum, Lam. Enc. Meth. 2, 554. 
Cultivated in fields ; annual ; sown in spring. 
Culm erect, many, glabrous ; leaves flat ; sheath round, 
smooth ; ligula truncated ; spike subquadrate ; locusta 
smooth. 
£. album. Spike white ; cariopsides white. 
y. albo-rubrum. Spike white ; cariopsides red. 
S', rubro-album. Spike red ; cariopsides white. 
s. rubrurn. Spike red ; cariopsides red. 
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