Glumes connate below, silky-hairy on keel and ribs all the way up.
On this assumption they can be compared with the corresponding structures in other plants; whereas any attempt to compare the paleæ or glumes with the sepals and petals of ordinary flowers breaks down.
The rule is, however, that the glumes are not awned.
The colour of the glumes may vary considerably and is sometimes yellow.
The glumesare without awns or wings, and are left behind.
Glumes almost glabrous, and connate to the middle.
The glumesmay remain attached: the outer has a serrulate keel, and often a violet hue.
In Hordeum some of theglumes are so narrow and pointed as to resemble stiff awns.
Annuals with some of the glumes at least, lanceolate or broad below.
In texture the glumes may be herbaceous and green-brown or purple (e.
Glumes only ciliate, on ribs and keel, except at the base where the hairs are longer.
Spikelets small and numerous, more or less elongated and pointed, not dangling: glumes and paleæ not inflated.
Awn bent and twisted, basal or nearly so; glumesvery hairy.
A small aquatic grass with prostrate habit and two-flowered spikelets with broad truncate glumes and paleæ.
The four glumes and two stamens distinguish this grass at once.
Navicular, boat-shaped, like the glumes of most Grasses.
Glume; Glumes are the husks or floral coverings of Grasses, or, particularly, the outer husks or bracts of each spikelet.
Spikelets flat, ovate-elliptic or oblong, lateral nerves of flowering glumes very prominent and straight, almost percurrent; palea deciduous with their glumes 2.
The first two glumes at the base of the spikelet do not bear any flowers and so these two glumes are usually called empty glumes.
Panicle rather narrow with short capillary branches; glumes I and II nerveless.
The third glume and the succeeding flowering glumes are ovate-oblong, obtuse or apiculate, with sub-marginal lateral veins; palea are broadly oblong with silkily ciliate keels.
The first and the second glumes are empty, subequal, narrowly linear with a strong midrib which is produced into a long capillary awn.
In some species of Panicum the rachilla is jointed to the pedicel below the empty glumes, whereas it is articulated just above these glumes in Chloris barbata.
Awned having an awn, that is, a bristle-like appendage, especially on the glumes of grasses.
The first two glumes are membranous, lanceolate, and subequal.
Spikelets are small, biseriate and crowded on one side of the spike and not jointed at the base; rachilla is slender, jointed and produced beyond the flowering glumes and bearing an imperfect glume.
Defn: An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.
Shaped like a boat; cymbiform; scaphoid; as, the navicularglumes of most grasses; the navicular bone.
The principal character by which the latter genus had been distinguished, consisted in the greater fragility of the ear, and in the glumes (i.
Both are straw-colour, but that from Mesopotamia has the glumes much more hairy than the other.
Engelmann relates the occurrence of an increased number of glumes in Bromus velutinus associated with suppression of the flowers.
Among the higher kinds instead of glumes there are regular flowers, of which, however, the calyx is still glumose or at least green.
If four glumesare present, then the external pair of them corresponds to the involucrum or spatha, the internal to the calyx.
The panicles are upright and unbranched, and the species may be readily known by the flowers, which are compressed, with long awns, and with the lower glumes wanting.
The glumes are keeled and pointed; the pales cleft, pointed and without awns; and the styles two in number, very long.
In this genus all the flowers are perfect, the glumes imbricated and bristled; and the present species may be distinguished by the glumes being divided into two sharply pointed lobes.
The spike is of an elongated oval form, blunt at the tip and narrow at the base; and the glumes are narrow, pointed at both ends, and fringed.
Unlike the other species of the same genus, its flowers form an erect spreading panicle, and the glumes are not keeled.
The outer glumes are keeled and traversed by several veins; and the lower pales are also keeled, with five or more nerves.
The panicle, too, is cylindrical and slender, the glumes quite free and abruptly pointed, and the awns longer than the pales.
The glumes are rough, and contain a compressed fruit.
In some species both glumes and pales are absent; but the former, when present, enclose one or more flowers, among which may be some that are abortive.
It may, however, be considered as settled that the whole of the bodies known as glumes and paleae, and distichously arranged externally to the flower, form no part of the floral envelopes, but are of the nature of bracts.
One-flowered spikelets may fall as a whole (as in the tribes Paniceae and Andropogoneae), or the axis is jointed above the barren glumes so that only the flowering glume and pale fall with the fruit.
Fertile glumes generally shorter than the empty glumes, usually with a bent awn on the back.
Fertile glume and pale cartilaginous, coriaceous or papery; empty glumes more delicate, usually herbaceous, the lowest usually smallest.
Coleanthus, Nardus) the spikelet consists of nothing more, but usually (even in uniflorous spikelets) other glumes are present.
Fertile glumesgenerally longer than the empty, unawned or with a straight, terminal awn.
Spikelet of Anthoxanthum (enlarged) without the two lower barren glumes, showing the two upper awned barren glumes (g) and the flower.
The pair of barren glumes (b) are separated from the flowering glume, which bears a long awn, twisted below the knee and feathery above.
Fertile glume and pale hyaline; empty glumes thick, membranous to coriaceous or cartilaginous, the lowest the largest.
As the fruit matures, the glumes of the flowers become the "chaff" of the grain.
The individual flowers are covered by glumes and are arranged spirally on the axis.
The glumes at least half as long as the lemma =Wood-grass, Muhlenbergia mexicana.
Above the glumes are two or more other bracts, the lemmas.
Spikelets unisexual or perfect, in loose panicles, with only 2 glumes (in our genera) and palet none.
Lower glumes united at base, the flowering awned on the back.
The broad glumes are all similar in shape, but decrease in size upwards, and are not bristled.
The glumes overlap all round the axis of the spikelet; there are generally three stamens; and the ovary is enclosed in a little vase-shaped covering with a little hole at the top through which the two or three stigmas protrude.
An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.
LOOSE SMUT OF OATS The glumes at a more nearly destroyed than the glumes at b] When threshing-time comes you will notice a great quantity of black dust coming from the grain as it passes through the machine.
When mature, the grain and glumes drop off, or are pushed off, and go to the ground.
Grains of lyme grass with two corky empty glumes attached, which serve as a raft.
Flower of a grass with glumes removed, showing three stamens and two feathery styles.
In grasses the outer scales or glumes of the spikelets are sterile bracts (fig.
Leaves slightly hairy; glumes whitish; grows to the height of about five feet; flowers in December: aquatic.
Mr. Sheppard once brought me a panicle of grass, the glumes of which were rough with hairs, or small bristles, to which several specimens of a fly related to Xylota pipiens adhered by their proboscis.
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