The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . barley com-monly grown in England. It preferslight land. Bread is sometimes madefrom its flom-; but it is chiefly usedfor malting, previously to being fer-mented for beer. Malt is the gnain ofbailey forced to germinate, by whichit acquires sweetness, and then Idlndried. , 3. {WallBarley). Lateralflowers Glumes of the ones lanceolate, fringed. Grain adliering to the palete. Walls and waste places. A worthless weed. %* Barley differs from Rye, whichit somewhat resembles, inhaving its spikelets one-flowered only


The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . barley com-monly grown in England. It preferslight land. Bread is sometimes madefrom its flom-; but it is chiefly usedfor malting, previously to being fer-mented for beer. Malt is the gnain ofbailey forced to germinate, by whichit acquires sweetness, and then Idlndried. , 3. {WallBarley). Lateralflowers Glumes of the ones lanceolate, fringed. Grain adliering to the palete. Walls and waste places. A worthless weed. %* Barley differs from Rye, whichit somewhat resembles, inhaving its spikelets one-flowered only, and constantly Fig. CCXLI. Hordeum distichum mlh3 spilcelets separate, of wliich the two lateralare steiile, and the central only perfect. Fig. CCXLII. Secaie Cereale with aEpikelet 147 12 umtiel, ?while tlie involueelsmany bracts. The manner in wliiohflowers arc arranged iscalled their is a sort of branching,and has different names,aecordino to the manner SCHOOL BOTANY. at the base of the partial umbels consist of. Fig. CCXLn. Fig. XXXVII.


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