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Glume

or GLUMA, the exterior series of scales constituting the flower of a grass. It consists of empty bracts.

The name was given by Linnæus and adopted by Lindley.

GLYCERAMIC ACID meal with 8 parts of water, and allowing it to stand for half an hour; it is then washed with water, and kneaded, till all the starch is washed away, and the gluten thus obtained is a tenacious, yellowishgray, elastic mass, which dries into a horny, semi-transparent mass, resembling glue.

G. medius, and the G. minimus. The muscles of the hip, the G. maximus, the culated muscle, which makes the buttock first is a very large and coarsely fasci-

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