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Chapter 28 ON THE SUPPOSED ORIGIN OF BARLEY AND RYE.

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

            
            

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