Colorado Agricultural College 
1 Chess or Cheat {Bromus secalinus L.) (Fig. 29).— Seeds cinnamon- 
buff to clay color; lemma rounded on the back, obscurely 7-nerved, 6-8 mm. 
long, 1.5-2 mm. wide; awn from 4-6 mm. long, straight and stout; palet edge» 
bear a single row of stiff hairs. 
2 Downy Brome Grass {Bromus tcctorum L.) (Fig. 30).— Seeds 
wood-brown to buffy-brown in color, 8-10 mm. long, .5-1 mm. wide; awn 10-1- 
min lone; lemma hairy with longer hairs at the margins. 
Fig. 29. Chess (Bromus 
secalinus). x 6. a. Bottom 
view. b. Side view. 
X 5. 
12. Wheat Grass, Quitch Grass 
{Agropyron Oacrtncr) 
I.cmma convex or slisHtlj’ keeled above, 5-7 veined, ^ 
or bearing a sub-terminal awn either slmrt and inconsi.uuous <n laiel.y 
one to three ti.nes the length of the seed; palet shorter than the lennna 
bristly on the keel; rachiila sn.ooth or hairy, ,.ylindrleal i>nt narrower at 
the bLe; seed 8-12 mm. long, 1. 5-2.5 mm. wide, slender, gradually tai'*;"' y 
to a slender point or awn ; grain oval to oval-ronnd, hairy at the summit oil. 
