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The cereal barley is found to offer three important forms, which can be best explained by the annexed diagramatic arrangement:-
Two-rowed-
by abortion of four Four-rowed-
by abortion of two Six-rowed-
by fruition of all
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the seeds of a spikelet.
The two-rowed barley has been named Hordeum distichum; and as we are inclined, wit