It requires some patience to bring the Tarantula who has bitten into the insidious spikelet to the entrance of the burrow.
To drive a knife quickly into the ground, across the burrow, so as to cut off the Tarantula's retreat when she is attracted by the spikelet and standing on the upper floor, would be a manoeuvre certain of success, if the soil were favourable.
I became his rusticus insidiator; I waved a spikelet at the entrance of the burrow to imitate the humming of a Bee and attract the attention of the Lycosa, who rushes out, thinking that she is capturing a prey.
Single and scattered along the branches, with the silky hairs shorter than the flowers; sterile spikelet conspicuous but mostly neutral; the fertile triandrous.
Scales of the spikeletstrictly 2-ranked, conduplicate and keeled.
One spikelet of each pair sterile and shortly pedicelled, the other fertile, sessile and sunk in the rhachis.
In pairs or clustered; the copious soft-silky hairs much longer than the flowers; sterile spikelet a small neutral rudiment (in n.
Number of flowers in the spikelet very variable, according to age, etc.
Achene lenticular, the edge turned to the rhachis; spikelet flattened, many flowered; rhachis narrow, not winged.
Spikes digitate-clustered, very silky; sterilespikelet larger than the fertile one.
Margin of the first glume of the sessile spikelet broadly incurved from below the middle.
As a type for the spikelet that of an Eragrostis or Dinebra may be chosen.
In the perfect spikelet there are four very unequal glumes.
Margin of the first glume of the sessile spikelet incurved narrowly from the base to the apex.
Each spikelet is solitary, and articulate at the very base of a rachis, lanceolate, 1-flowered.
Margins of the first glume of the sessile spikelet inflexed.
The palea can easily be distinguished from the glume, because its insertion in the spikelet is different from that of the glume.
First glume of the sessile spikelet with smooth margins, callus bearded.
Spikes solitary; spikelets 1-flowered; first glume of the sessile spikelet pectinate 21.
The spikes have their bases rounded and swollen and each spike consists of a sessile bisexual spikelet and two flat linear, truncate, parallel pedicels, one terminated by a spikelet, and the other by a solitary minute glume.
The spikelets are arranged in groups of two, facing each other and appearing like a single spikeletwith two equal echinate glumes, sessile, or obscurely pedicelled on very short, tumid, pubescent branches.
Margins of the first glume of the sessile spikeletnot inflexed.
Having one of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female; -- said of grasses.
The lowermost glume of each spikelet is often alone developed or conspicuous, and looks like a bract in the axis of which the spikelet sits.
The central spikelet is the perfect one, the two lateral barren.
Holcus and Arrhenatherum this state of affairs is partially represented, since one flower of the spikelet is male only.
Glyceria fluitans has a more contracted panicle and usually more flowers in the spikelet &c.
The greyish-brown spikeletof Alopecurus easily falls as a whole, included in the glumes; the palea is loose and delicate.
Type of “double seed,” which really consists of the entire spikelet (a, nat.
Accordingly, it is of importance in determining a grass to discover how many flowers the spikelet contains, and whether any are male only, or barren, &c.
Spikelet with a reddish tinge; awn almost smooth, less than 20 mm.
In order to understand the structure of a spikelet the student should carefully dissect a large one, such as that of an Oat (Fig.
Diagram of a spikelet of a grass as it would appear if the internodes between each set of organs were elongated.
In the six-rowed barley all the three flowers of a triple spikelet are fertile, and each of them has a long awn on the top of the outer palet.
If we choose for further consideration the hexastichum type, each spikelet produces three normal flowers and afterwards three normal grains.
Morphologically however, the spikelet is not homologous to those parts of other grasses which have the same name.
Coleanthus, Nardus) the spikelet consists of nothing more, but usually (even in uniflorous spikelets) other glumes are present.
Of these the two placed distichously opposite each other at the base of the spikelet never bear any flower in their axils, and are called the empty or barren glumes (figs.
In Cynosurus (Dog's tail) the pectinate involucre which conceals the spikelet is a barren or abortive spikelet.
Spikelet of Anthoxanthum (enlarged) without the two lower barren glumes, showing the two upper awned barren glumes (g) and the flower.
The axis of the spikelet is frequently jointed and breaks up into articulations above each flower.
Short spikes may fall from the culm as a whole; or the axis of a spike or raceme is jointed so that onespikelet falls with each joint as in many Andropogoneae and Hordeae.
Various methods of scattering the grain have been adopted, in which parts of the spikeletor inflorescence are concerned.
In Setaria and allied genera the spikelet is subtended by an involucre of bristles or spines which represent sterile branches of the inflorescence.
Thus it is common to find one or more imperfect (usually male) flowers in the same spikelet with bisexual ones, and their relative position is important in classification.
These are arranged so as to form spikelets (locustae), and each spikelet may contain one, as in Agrostis (fig.
Spikelet of Cenchrus echinatus enclosed in a bristly involucre.
Spikelet of Setaria, with an abortive branch (h) beneath it.
The spikelets are arranged in spike-like racemes, generally in pairs consisting of a sessile and stalked spikelet at each joint of the rachis (fig.
