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100. Hordeum Jubatum. Linnaeus. 
Squirrel-tail grass. 
Lateral flowers abortive, neutral, on a short pedicel, short-awned; the perfect 
flow r er bearing an extremely long awn, about the length of the similar capillary 
glumes, which form apparently a six-awned involucre, all spreading. Biennial; 
flowers in June. Culm 1 foot high. In damp level prairies. Wisconsin^ 
Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota. Abundant also on the sea coast. 
101. Hordeum Pusillum. Nuttall . 
Lateral flowers imperfect and neutral, awnless but pointed, the perfect flower 
bearing an awn nearly twice the length of the palea, equaling the short awns 
of the rigid glumes; spike linear. Annual; flowers in May. Culms 4 to 10 
inches high. Illinois and Ohio. Affords a good “bite” for cattle. 
102. Hordeum Vulgare. Linnaeus . 
Barley. Four-rowed-barley. 
Spikelets all fertile, awned; the flowers arranged so as to form a nearly four¬ 
sided spike. Annual; flowers in May and June. Culms 2 to 3 feet high. 
Native of Sicily and Tartary. Extensively cultivated in Wisconsin to supply 
f.he breweries of this State, and for exportation to the East. 
About fifty bushels (or from 40 to 60) of barley are usually produced on 
an acre of well tilled land. Two and a half bushels of seed per acre is about 
the quantity used. Barley is cultivated in the British fur country as far north 
as Fort Norman on the 65th parallel of latitude, but could not be ripened two 
degrees further north/* 
103. Hordeum Distighum. Linnaeus. 
Two-rowed barley. 
Lateral spikelets sterile, awnless, the fertile ones awned, distichous, or forming 
a two-sided spike. Annual; flowers in June. Culms 2 to 3 feet high. Native 
of Tartary. Often cultivated, though not so extensively as the preceding species. 
Analysis of different parts of the two-rowed barley plant, from Emmons’ 
Agriculture of New York, Vol. 2, page 12G—129: 
* Richardson. 
