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Definition of Glumes
1. glume [n] - See also: glume
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glumes
Literary usage of Glumes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"Spikelets 2 to many-flowered, variously paniculate or rarely racemose : flowering
glumes awnless or terminated by one to many awns.— FL. ..."
2. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... which are nearly inclosed in the glumes; this is common westw and extends ...
glumes conspicuously 6-7- nerved, the margins thin and widened above the ..."
3. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1881)
"glumes light-red brown. Wolf Tail. 'Head 9 to 10 inches long, ... glumes open.
Similar to the Honduras, except in the deep brown glumes and III. ..."
4. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1884)
"glumes 4 or fewer, the terminal only bearing a 2-sexual flower, rarely a lower one
... glumes 4. Pedicels of spikelets naked or hairy 1. Panicum. glumes 4. ..."
5. The Philippine Journal of Science by Institute of Science and Technology (Philippines) (1906)
"Empty glumes two ; perfect flowers two in each spikelet (28) ... Empty glumes
three ; perfect flower one in each spikelet. 4. glumes ..."
6. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1856)
"Digitaria—spikes branched, spikelets alternate on one side, glumes very unequal.
** Spikelets with one or two perfect florets, sometimes with one or ..."
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