glume

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Glume rounded or keeled on the back, mostly awned below the 2-cleft tip, 5–9-nerved.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Glume; Glumes are the husks or floral coverings of Grasses, or, particularly, the outer husks or bracts of each spikelet.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Glume, glōōm, n. a term applied to certain bracts in grasses and sedges.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Glume a single scale-like bract with a flower in its axil.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Forked catchfly, 130Foxtail, green, yellow, 117 Garlic, field, wild, 119Gaura, 147Geraniaceae, 142Geranium family, 142 Glume, one of the outer floral envelopes in grasses or sedges.

From Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 by Beal, W. J. (William James)