Lexicographical Neighbors of Glumellas
Literary usage of Glumellas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Report by Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society (1858)
"Glumes two, nearly equal, ovate, keeled, acute, as long aa the florets, awnless;
glumellas two, unequal, ovate; the outer deeply cleft at the summit, ..."
2. Mountain and moor by John Ellor Taylor, Josiah Wood Whymper (1879)
"... bract-like organs, with three veins running up each : these correspond to the
calyx, but are called glumes; then next to these are the two glumellas ..."
3. Botanical names for English readers by Randal Hibbert Alcock (1876)
"G. tri, three, and od, tooth; because the glumellas are three-toothed at the summit.
TRISE'TUM. L. tri, three, and seta, a bristle or stiff hair; ..."
4. A Natural History of British Grasses by Edward Joseph Lowe (1871)
"... in C. lanceolata it is loose. Spikelets laterally compressed. Two almost
equal.sized glumes. Two membranaceous glumellas. Name derived from the Greek, ..."
5. The Grasses of Great Britain by John Edward Sowerby, Charles Johnson (1861)
"... spikelets acquiring a brownish tinge in sunny spots, its longer and harsher
peduncles than those of B. mollis, and racemosus, and its glumellas ..."
6. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"... with two glumellas. It is found in Hertfordshire and other parts of England.
The first two species are found in America and India. ..."
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