glume

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Root perennial; culm 2–4° high; leaves broad, flat; panicle elongated; glumes scarious, very unequal.—Meadows and lots; absurdly called Grass of the Andes.

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The others retained the elongated, narrow, brownish-red ears, the flowering glumes again opening wide for some days.

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Go, reaper, Speed and reap, Go take the harvest Of the plough: The wheat is standing Broad and deep, The barley glumes Are golden now.

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The flowering glume has generally a more or less boat-shaped form, is of firm consistence, and possesses a well-marked central midrib and frequently several lateral ones.

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Chaff, small membranous scales or bracts on the receptacle of Composit�; the glumes, &c., of grasses.

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