glume

• “The second glume is shorter than the third, membranous, 3 - to 5-nerved, rarely wanting.”

  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

• “The callus of the third glume is short, pointed and villous.”

  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

• “This prolonged rachilla sometimes bears a minute glume, which is of course rudimentary.”

  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

• “It differs from _G. nutans_ in being an annual and in having filiform leaves, bicuspidate third glume which is scabrid all over the back and a fourth glume distinctly tricuspidate at the apex.”

  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

• “A spathe of calyptrous glume involucrumines the perinanthean”

  Finnegans Wake

• “· The degree to which the glume adheres to the grain.”

  4. Pearl Millet

• “Evening grain washing preparation of fermentation grain washing preparation of fermentation glume removal glume removal”

  1. Objectives of the Introduction of Animal-Powered Mills

• “Long-glume types with high seed weight are especially promising for increasing seed size.”

  2. Finger Millet

• “In one short-season variety, some farmers are selecting for tough outer glumes (the papery coat or bract around the seed) and long awns (the hair-like bristle growing out from the glume) which help protect the grains from birds, a major pest of early rice.”

  14. Saving seeds for planting

• “It is a slender grass with digitate spikes, which have much of the habit of _Digitaria_, but which, on account of the absence of the small outer glume existing in that genus, Mr. Keppist, Librarian of the Linnean Society, of London, refers to _Paspalum_.”

  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

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