96 
more than that number. The flowering glumes are awned 
and the beards are quite stiff though very fine and slender, 
and lie close along the panicle, a row on each side. The 
grain is enclosed in the glume, and is not released on 
thrashing. The seeds are shuttle form. This species tillers 
very greatly, more than any of the others. It is remark- 
ably free from disease. It is cultivated in some parts of 
Germany, in Hungary, and Russia. It was introduced. 
from Spain into France in 1850. 
1. ENGRAIN COMMUN, VIL. 
Synonym: One Rowed Wheat. 
Culms hollow, harsh, thick, very stiff and erect and generally having 
slight crook just below the panicle: nodes white and hairy: foliage very 
dark green and harsh to the touch: Panicles bearded, light bronze, glab- 
rous, very compact, tapering from base to tip, perfectly erect on the culm, 
not glaucous: Grain medium light amber, small to medium, flattish, triangu- 
lar or shuttle form, pointed at both ends: A spring variety. 
Culm: average height 3 feet, tallest plant 3 feet 7 1-2 
inches; diameter 1-8 to 1-6 inch, average 1-7. 
Leaves: per culm 3 or 4, usually 8; length 4 1-4 to 9 3-4 
inches, average 6 1-2; width of upper leaf 1-4 to 1-2 inch, 
average 3-8; lower 1-10 to 3-8 inch, average 3-16. 
Panicle: average length 4 1-4 + inches; thickness 1-4 to 
5-16 inch; breadth 3-16 inch, almost always; spikelets per 
panicle average 38; grains per spikelet 1. 
2. ENGRAIN DOUBLE, VIL. 
Synonym: Two-Rowed Wheat. 
Culms stout, but slender, and frequently reclining: hollow, thick, harskr 
to the touch: nodes white and hairy: not glaucous: usually slightly curved 
at the base of panicle: Panicle bearded, very light bronze, glabrous, harsh, 
very compact, tapering: Grain light amber, medium large, plump, rather 
triangular, pointed at the ends: A spring variety. 
Culm: average height 3 feet, tallest plant 3 feet 8 inches; 
diameter 1-6 to 1-7 inch, average 1-9. 
Leaves: per culm 4; length 2 1-2 to 7 3-4 inches, average 
5 1-2; width of upper leaf 3-16 to 1-2 inch, average 5-16; 
lower 1-8 to 3-8 inch, average 3-16. 
_ Panicle: average length 3 + inches; thickness 3-8 to 7-16 
inch, average 7-16; breadth almost always 1-4 inch; spike- 
lets per panicle average 26; grains per spikelet 2. 
‘Les Plantes Alimentaires, Heuzé, 1872 t. 1, p. 184. 


