The reason of this is that with the removal of the awns the corns pack more closely together.
So named from the abundant long feathery awnsof its fruit.
Defn: Having no awns or no horns; as, hummelcorn; a hummel cow.
Achenes obovate or oblong, flattened, with thickish margins and beset with forked-capitellate hairs; pappus a single row of long awns or coarse rigid bristles, or reduced in the ray to chaffy scales.
Pappus of a single row of awns or coarse rigid bristles, or in the ray scale-like.
Awns separate to the base, not jointed with the glume.
Spikelets altogether as in Panicum proper, and awnless, but with the short peduncles bearing below the joint of the spikelet solitary or clustered bristles resembling awns (but not forming an involucre).
Forms occur with the barbs of the awns spreading or retrorse, hybrids with Bidens frondosa or other species.
Achenes flattened parallel with the scales of the involucre, or slender and 4-sided, crowned with 2 or more rigid and persistent awns which are downwardly barbed.
Elphi, great-heead, Greatest iver seen, Nea yan i' this dealeAwns a breeter een.
The ray fungus is found in nature vegetated on grasses, on the awns of barley, the spears of oats, and on other grains.
Quantities of the fungi have been found between the vegetable fibers of barley which had penetrated the gums of cattle and on the awns of grain embedded in the tongues of cows.
The length of these awns is very variable, and this quality is perhaps the most striking of the whole variety.
The awnsare replaced by curiously shaped appendices, which are three-lobed.
The bearded point works a little farther with each change, and after twisting and untwisting a number of times it gets down three or four inches into the sand, often to moisture, where the awns decay and the grain germinates.
The chaff and awns of all are hygroscopic; that is, are changed by differences caused by variation of moisture in the air.
The twisting and untwisting of the awns enable the grain to bore through the fleeces, and even to penetrate the skins and make wounds which sometimes cause the death of the animal.
Awns fine and hair-like and not conspicuously protruding from the spikelets; the latter small, 2-5 mm.
The lower pair of paleæ are devoid of awns and enclose the caryopsis: the upper pair have stamens only, and the outer palea has a dorsal kneed awn, not twisted or hooked.
Awns long and conspicuously projecting from the spikelet, which is gaping and contains 3-5 flowers.
A shade-grass with long, conspicuous awns to the more or less drooping spikelets.
Awns long and sub-terminal, inserted between the teeth of the cleft apex of the paleæ.
A weed with creeping stolons, and no awns or mere points to the glumes.
The two-flowered spikelets and peculiarawns sufficiently distinguish it among the smaller forms.
When dry and mature the awns subserve biological functions of quite another kind, and as we shall see are of importance in the distribution and sowing of the grains.
Panicle conspicuously loose and drooping and awns long, paleæ narrow and elongated.
Awns bristle-like and terminal on the paleæ: flowers about six in each spikelet.
Awns terminal, or sub-terminal; often very short or nearly obsolete and the paleæ merely drawn out at the tips to a hard sharp awn-point.
Spikelets withawns or with sharp terminal points (awn-points) to the glumes or paleæ.
The driving action of even small reflexed asperities on awns is well illustrated by the fruits of Hordeum, which are often made by children to creep up the sleeve.
With the exception of Festuca Myurus and one or two other rare Fescues with setaceous leaves, Hordeum and Brachypodium are the only other genera with awns much resembling the Bromes.
Spikelets without awns or bristles, or with short awnsnot more than 3 mm.
Spikelets not awned, or with short inconspicuousawns --18.
The Ray Fungus is found naturally vegetated or clinging on the awns of barley, the spears of oats and on other grains.
Quantities of fungi have been found between the vegetable fibers of barley which had penetrated the gums of cattle and on the awns of grain imbedded in their tongues.
The causes are irritation from the bit, sharp teeth, irritating drenches, roughage that contains beards or awns of grasses and grains, and burrs that wound the lining membrane of the mouth.
Grasses having awns that are capable of wounding the mucous membrane of the mouth and penetrating the gums are most apt to produce the disease.
A number of them were attacked with colic, and several died from the irritation caused by the pointed awns or ends of the beards to the bowels.
The callus of the third glume is long, densely silkily hairy with three awns not jointed at the base with the glume; awns about 1 inch or more.
Rachilla produced beyond the flowering glumes and bearing awnswith rudimentary glumes.
The only objection against this grass is the presence of the troublesome awns which get twisted together like the strands of a rope.
In olden times, conjurors and wizards predicted events and told fortunes by means of the awns of these Oats, which they caused to wriggle about by holding them in a damp hand, or breathing upon them.
The long awns of Scandix Pecten are termed the Devil's Darning Needles, the beans of its seed vessels being called Venus' comb.
Fruit drupaceous; flowers in terminal panicles; anthers bearing a pair of reflexed awns on the back, each cell opening at apex anteriorally by a terminal pore; leaves persistent.
You'll never be happy no more till you awns 'twas a sad mistake an' do ax in the right plaace for pardon.
Theer ban't wan feller as awns all like what faither do.
Be it mug or glass Neea yan i' this deeal Binnot woth a pescod Awns a breeter een.
The stamens have the filaments (b) curiously dilated at the base; and the point of each cell of the anther is cut into two erect awns (c).
The Bearberry (Arctostaphylos Uva-Ursi) was formerly considered to belong to the genus Arbutus, but it differs in the filaments of the stamens being smooth and dilated at the base, and the awns affixed to the middle of the anthers.
In some species of Clematis theawns of the carpels are smooth; but in others they are bearded or feathered, as in those of the traveller's joy (C.
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