TAA i.3.2.32

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               Triticum dicoccum Schübl. <[>Gramineae<]>. Emmer wheat.

The material consists of spikelets with mature grains, some of 

the spikelets being entire, others broken.

          A sample was referred to Professor J. Percival, who 

kindly examined and identified it, and supplied the following 

interesting note:- "The specimens ... are typical spikelets, 

with grain, of Emmer (wheat), Triticum dicoccum Schübl. Emmer 

was the only kind of wheat known to the ancient Egyptians, and I 

have examined authentic specimens from Egypt dating from pre-dynas-

tic times down the XVIII-th dynasty and later. This cereal 

was still grown in small amounts in Egypt at the beginning of the 

last century<,> but is no longer cultivated there. It is, however, 

still found as an important cereal in Abyssinia, and also grown 

by primitive peoples in out of the way parts of Persia, Russia<,> as 

well as in the Basque provinces of Spain and certain distrir/<c>ts

of Serbia, Morocco and Southern Germany."

                  nos. 277 (large & small box & box 8); 401, 355, 439, 473, 531; 
                         454, 476, 573C.