The microscopy of vegetable foods, with special reference to the detection of adulteration and the diagnosis of mixtures (1916)
Winton, Andrew Lincoln, 1864-1946, Moeller, Josef, 1848-1924, Winton, Kate Grace Barber, Mrs · New York, John Wiley & sons, inc.; [etc., etc.] · leaf 81
The beardof the spikelets consists of coarse bristles, often barbed, which may beborne on the glumes or palcts, in which case they are known as awns(e.g., wheat), or may spring from the base of the spikclet (e.g., Setaria).Commonly there are three stamens (rarely one, two, four, or six) withslender… … Fig. 32. Wheal {Triticum sativum). A spikrli-l with four llowers; B sinnk- flower; Cwhole fruit or caryopsis; D fruit in lonj^itudiiial section, i and 2 empty gluiius; bflowering glumes; v palcts; c embryo. (Schumann.) of flowering, sometimes become closely adherent to the fruit duringripening…
