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1. AMIDONNIER BLANC, VIL. 
Synonym: Epeautre de Tartarie, Vil.; White Starch 
Wheat (English name). 
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Culms generally stiff and ereci, though when very long frequently reclining, 
hollow, very glaucous: Panicles bearded, white, glabrous, glaucous, compact, 
tapering; awns widely divergent and slender; spikelets often proliferous, 
especially with the central ones; Grain medium dark amber, of good size, 
long, somewhat shrunken: A spring variety. 
Culm: average height 3 feet 4 inches, tallest plant 4 feet 
2, 1-2 inches; diameter 1-7 to 1-4 inch, average 1-6. 
Leaves: per culm 5; length 7 to 13 3-4 inches, average 
10 1-2; width of upper leaf 3-8 to 3-4 inch, average 9-16 ; 
lower 1-8 to 3-8 inch, average 1-4. 
Panicle: average length 5 + inches; thickness 5-16 to 3-8 
inch, average 3-8; breadth 5-16 to 3-8 inch, average 5-16; 
spikelets per panicle average 28; grains per spikelet 2 to 3, 
average 2. 
This variety can be cultivated in cold mountainous regions 
where no other wheat can be raised, excepting, perhaps, 
Triticum monococcum, the next species to be considered. It 
has been grown fora long time in certain infertile regions 
of Alsace and the Palatinate, in Germany. 
2. AMIDONNIER ROUX, VIL. 
Synonym: Red Starch Wheat (English name). 
Culms hollow, slender, glaucous, very erect, stiff; nodes whiteish and 
hairy; Panicles bearded, very light bronze, glabrous, compact, slightly 
tapering; awns long, slender, divergent: Grains medium pale amber, of fair 
size, long; a spring variety. 
Culm: average height 3 feet, tallest plant 3 feet 5 inches; 
diameter 1-12 to 1-6 inch, average 1-8. 
Leaves: per culm 4; length 3 1-2 to 12 1-2 inches, average 
9; width of upper leaf 3-16 to 1-2 inch, average 5-16; lower 
leaf 1-10 to 1-4 inch, avérage 1-8. 
Panicle: average length 3 — inches; thickness 3-8 to 7-16 
inch, average 3-8; breadth 1-4 to 5-16 inch, average 1-4; 
spikelets per panicle average 20; grains per spikelet 2 to 3; 
average 2. 
TRITICUM MONOCOCCUM, t. 
The panicle of this variety is very compact, and the spike- 
lets overlie one another like the shingles of a roof, in two 
rows, one on each side the rachis. The spikelets are sup- 
posed to be one-seeded, but they very commonly contain 
