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The fruit or caryopsis in the commoner varieties of cultivated barleys is adherent to the flowering glume and pale, and on being thrashed does not separate from the latter. Varieties termed naked barleys, however, exist, in which the caryopsis is free from the glumes and falls out of the ear as readily or more so than a grain of wheat.

— John Percival

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