Starch grains may often be seen in contact with the pigment crystals.
In such plants, the pollen grains are sometimes fihiform and not spherical in shape.
On the fertile low grounds along the margins of rivers or in clearings of forests, agricultural communities naturally take their rise, dwelling in villages and cultivating the wild grains, which by careful nurture and selection have been turned into rich cereals.
The horses were eating oats from their movable troughs and sparrows flew down and pecked the grains that fell.
The dose is from 20 grains to a drachm.