. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 558. Chess or cheat (Sromus aecalinua). Common in wheat fields. It was once sup- posed that wheat turned to chess. mon weed introduced from Europe but cultivated for forage in Oregon and Washington. A closely allied species {B. racemosus commutatus) is common and can be distinguished by the pubescent sheaths and the less rigid and turgid lemma, especially in fruiting spikelets. The idea that chess may turn into wheat is now one of the curiosities of ag
. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 558. Chess or cheat (Sromus aecalinua). Common in wheat fields. It was once sup- posed that wheat turned to chess. mon weed introduced from Europe but cultivated for forage in Oregon and Washington. A closely allied species {B. racemosus commutatus) is common and can be distinguished by the pubescent sheaths and the less rigid and turgid lemma, especially in fruiting spikelets. The idea that chess may turn into wheat is now one of the curiosities of agricul- tural tradition. unioloides, H. B. K. Rescue-grass. (Fig. 559.) A tall annual (one to three feet) with an open panicle of broad, much-flattened, nearly or quite awnless spikelets. Native of South America. Cultivated in the southern states for winter forage. Also called arctic-grass, Schrader's brome-grass, Australian brome and Australian oats. 27. Lolium (the old Latin name). A genus of six species of grasses in northern Europe and Asia. Spikelets several-flowered, solitary and sessile on alternate sides of the rachis, placed with the edges against the axis, forming a two-rowed spike. multiflorum. Lam. (L. Italicum, A. Br.). Italian Rye-grass. (Fig. 560.) A short-lived perennial or scarcely more than a biennial. Spikelets with awns about as long as the lemma. On the Paciiic coast sometimes called Australian rye-grass. perenne, Linn. Perennial Rye-grass. (Pig. 561.) Similar to the preceding, but somewhat more per- sistent and with awnless spikelets. Long cultivated in England, where it is highly esteemed as a forage grass. 28. Secale (Latin name for rye). A genus of grasses containing two species, one of which is widely cultivated. Native in the Old World. Spikelets two-flow- ered, solitary and sessile, alter- nate on opposite sides of a con- tinuous rachis, forming a dense terminal spike. Glumes narrow and pointed ; lemmas keeled, five-nerved, long-awned from the apex. c
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