"Culm" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... corolla or calyx is the part which attains the highest color, and is the most attractive; in many it is the seed-vessel or fruit; in others, as the Red Maple, the leaves; and in others still it is the very culm itself which is the principal flower or ...
— Excursions • Henry D. Thoreau
... consists of a culm bearing at its head a spike, which, when it is not mutilated, has, as in barley and wheat, three parts, namely: the grain, the glume and the beard, not to speak of the sheath which contains the spike while it is being formed. The grain is that solid interior part of the spike, ...
— Roman Farm Management - The Treatises Of Cato And Varro • Marcus Porcius Cato |
