Spikelets falling singly from the unjointed rachis of the spike or the ultimate branches of the panicle.
Spikelets one-flowered, rarely two-flowered as in Zea, falling from the pedicel entire or with certain joints of the rachis at maturity.
Spikelets bisexual, or male and bisexual, each male standing close to a bisexual.
Elionurus, a widespread savanna grass in tropical and subtropical America, and also in the tropics of the old world, is rejected by cattle probably on account of its aromatic character, the spikeletshaving a strong balsam-like smell.
The spikelets are sometimes unisexual, and there are often six stamens.
Every variety of racemose and paniculate inflorescence obtains, and the number of spikelets composing those of the large kinds is often immense.
Amphicarpum, native in the south-eastern United States, has fertile cleistogamous spikelets on filiform runners at the base of the culm, those on the terminal panicle are sterile.
Spikelets crowded in two close rows, forming a one-sided spike or raceme with a continuous (not jointed) rachis.
One-flowered spikeletsmay 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.
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.
Spikelets unisexual, male and female in separate inflorescences or on different parts of the same inflorescence.
Spikelets 1-flowered, in a contracted, mostly spike-like panicle.
Like the last, but the heads cylindrical or oblong, spikelets usually 2-flowered, and achene linear-oblong.
Part of the hairy inflorescence with two spikelets of E.
Spikelets chestnut-color; the staminate flowers strongly hairy-fringed on the margins, and the fertile one at the tip.
Perennial, with linear flat leaves, their sheaths closed at base, the spikelets in a loose panicle.
Spikelets compressed, in a loose panicle, the hairy jointed rhachis produced into a hairy pedicel.
Spikelets several-flowered, smooth and shining, one or two of the uppermost flowers sterile.
The central fruits of each triplet form two regular rows, but the lateral spikelets form not four straight single rows as in (ii.
All the flowers of each triplet of spikelets on both sides of the rachis are fertile and produce ripe fruits; hence the ear produces six longitudinal rows of grain.
SCOB[=I]'NA, the pedicle of the spikelets of grasses.
Defn: A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses.
Panicum capillare) with minute spikelets on long, slender pedicels forming a light, open panicle.
Defn: One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.
If one's finger is presented thespikelets adhere to it.
It has the power of waving its spikelets, and of the thousand of truncated tentacles which cover the spikelets each seems to possess independent action.
The spikelets may be one-, two- or three-flowered, according to the species.
The spikelets of this curious plant are oneflowered and provided with two linear glumes or outer scales.
Those of the middle-most spikelets stand on its outer side, while those of the lateral part are placed transversely.
Spikelets in dense one-sided clusters at the ends of the panicle branches =Orchard Grass, Dactylis glomerata.
Spikelets in pairs at each joint, forming a dense spike (Wild Rye) --27.
Spikelets in a single row on one side of the axis, forming a one-sided spike =Yard Grass, Eleusine indica.
Spikelets without awns or bristles, or with short awns not more than 3 mm.
Spikelets arranged in panicles or in panicled spikes --8.
Spikelets sessile or nearly so, forming crowded or spike-like panicles --32.
Spikelets with their edges toward the axis of the spike =Rye Grass, Lolium perenne.
Spikelets alternating on opposite sides of the axis, forming a two-rowed spike --26.
Spikelets in solitary raceme-like spikes; awn about 1 cm.
Spikelets with their sides toward the axis of the spike =Quack Grass, Agropyron repens.
Racemes many and whorled in the panicle; glume I of sessile spikelets muricate on the margins.
Spikelets flat, ovate-elliptic or oblong, lateral nerves of flowering glumes very prominent and straight, almost percurrent; palea deciduous with their glumes 2.
The inflorescence consists of spikes, solitary, digitate or fascicled, articulate and fragile; the joints of the floral axis and the pedicels of the pedicelled spikelets are trigonous and hollowed ventrally.
This may be seen in the spikelets of the species of Cynodon.
Spikes panicled, filiform, spikelets very minute one-or more-flowered, glumes awnless.
The pedicels of spikelets are hairy and sometimes one or two long hairs are also found on them.
In mature spikelets the grain which is free is enclosed by the fourth glume and its palea.
Female spikelets are broadly oblong, 1-flowered and with four glumes.
Joints of rachis and pedicels of upper spikelets clavate or trumpet-shaped and tips cupular with toothed margins.
Sessile spikelets geminate in all except the uppermost joints 26.
The spikeletsare jointed on their pedicels and fall away from them.
Its spikelets are arranged singly and alternately along the central axis, and the upper glume reaches to the base of the fourth floret.
It is very variable in height, ranging from one to three feet, and displays its dense terminal cluster of spikelets in July and August.
Its fertile flowers form oblong erect spikelets, while the barren spikelets are solitary.
It derives its specific name from its curved stem, and may be further distinguished by its channelled leaves and the globular mass of spikelets which are barren on the top.
The flowers grow in an oblong interrupted spike, the upperspikelets being barren, and the intermediate ones barren at the tip.
Its flowers are arranged in a simple spike, the spikelets being solitary and unilateral, with only a single flower, and the pales are shaggy.
In these the inflorescence is a compound spike, with one-sided spikelets inserted in a double row.
The flowers are arranged in a compound spreading spike, of three to five parts, and the spikelets are of a purplish colour, ovate in form, and arranged in pairs.
The flowers are arranged in a simple spike, but thespikelets are clustered two or three together.
Down at the base of our little spikelets were seed cups in which slept the little baby seeds.
I was proud of myspikelets of flowers, and now could wave with my sisters in the rolling seas of wheat.
Some tiny feather-headed spikelets disengaged themselves unwillingly from the round and venerable downpolled dandelion.
The spikeletswhich make up the inflorescence are somewhat crowded together; they are very narrow, from 1 to 2 cm.
The flowers sometimes occur in a solitary cluster, but more often from 2 to 5 clusters of spikelets are found on the side of the stalk near its top.
The spikelets themselves may be either solitary or clustered.
It may, therefore, be taken here to refer to the shooting out of the spikelets from their covering.
One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.
A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses.
Spikelets with at least three or four, but usually more flowers.
In Hordeum sylvaticum the two lateralspikelets occasionally conform to this heading (see p.
Annuals, about six inches high, with relatively large and numerous spikelets for so small a panicle.
Spikelets small and numerous, more or less elongated and pointed, not dangling: glumes and paleæ not inflated.
Lolium has a conspicuously notched rachis and the spikelets arranged in the other plane.
Panicle branched but not very open; spikelets glistening yellow and only 5-6 mm.
Spikelets flat and closely sessile in the notches of the rachis.
The only grass likely to be confounded is Agropyrum, in which the spikeletsare not paired.
Again, Agrostis alba has no protruding awn, as in the spikelets of Aira.
Spikelets with awns or with sharp terminal points (awn-points) to the glumes or paleæ.
The whole plant has a pale yellowish hue, except in the young spikelets and sheaths, which are occasionally purplish.
The flowers are in a one-sided spike, from one to three inches long, the one-flowered spikelets being placed alternately in two rows, in the notches of the central axis.
The flowers are arranged in a nearly simple panicle, with erect spikelets of five or six flowers.
Some of them have a solitary spikelet; others have several spikelets in a terminal cluster or spike, with, sometimes, stalked spikelets below; or they are arranged in a compound spike or panicle.
The flowers are all imperfect, without perianth; and the male and female flowers are either in separate spikelets or in different parts of the same one.
The panicle is much branched, with erect spikelets of five or six flowers.
The spikelets are round or broadly ovate, nearly a quarter of an inch long, more or less tinged with purple, on the long, slender branches of a loose, spreading panicle three or four inches long.
The flowers are in little green or brown spikelets that are either solitary at the top of the stem, or collected into a cluster, spike, panicle, or umbel.
Thus spikelets of wheat occasionally produce more than the three florets which are proper to them.
Increased number of florets= in the individual spikelets of grasses is also met with under some circumstances.
Spikelets of Willedenovia, composed entirely of scales to the exclusion of flowers.
Duval Jouve[390] records a similar occurrence in Catabrosa aquatica, the spikelets of which contained from two to seven flowers.
In some fresh specimens which I have lately examined I find the structure to be as follows:--On each notch of the rachis there are three spikelets (fig.
The spikelets of certain grasses are frequently found with some of their constituent parts completely replaced by leaves, like those of the stem, while the true flowers are usually entirely absent.
Each internode bears three single-flowered spikelets arranged alternately on either side of the rachis.
Three spikelets in situ on the rachis, showing long | internodes.
In the six-rowed varieties the whole of these spikelets attain maturity, whilst in the two-rowed varieties only one on each side of the rachis, viz.
Spikelets in the rough, before severe rubbing, ovoid or oblong, flattened, 2 mm.
Spikelets consisting of the grain and its coverings, broad oval, somewhat flattened, about 7 mm.
Spikelets in clusters of three, central one only fertile, 5 mm.
Each culm has four or five thick clusters of spikelets growing on small stalks of their own.
The spikelets of Timothy are very small and grow in dense clusters at the end of the stem, so that the blossom forms a kind of tail.
It has a large and spreading head of flower; the spikelets grow on stems, and become gradually smaller towards the top of the stalk.
This cluster or tail of spikelets is green and also rather rough to the touch.
As the spikelets are flat and grow on two sides of the stem only, each stem looks as if it had been pressed in a book, as perhaps you have sometimes pressed flowers.
The ear formed by the cluster of spikelets is of the same shape as an ear of Timothy, like a round tail slightly pointed.
The spikelets make a cluster or tail at the end of the stalk, but they do not grow so closely together as those of the Timothy and Meadow Foxtail.
The spikelets from the trees formed a soft carpet over the route, and occasionally a brake of brambles barred the interspaces of the trunks.
Lady Constantine was thoroughly wearied, and sat down, while he gathered a handful of twigs and spikelets from the masses strewn without and lit a small fire, first taking the precaution to blind the little window and relock the door.
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