halm

1 Epichloë, which clothes the sheaths and halms of grasses with its stroma, at first snowy white and later ochre-yellow as the perithecia form, is another example.

2 A halm of wheat, brought hither God knows whence, was playing the lonely dandy.

3 Entering a boat on the river, where we cannot touch the bottom with the oar, we perceive a little white flower waving to and fro, supported by long spiral halms between straight, grass-like leaves.

4 He distributes a multitude of straws, which he inserts to stick out in different places, so that the halm may remind him of what his memory cannot retain.

5 Still more striking cases are afforded by small insects which bore into the halms of cereals, and cause atrophy of the whole ear—e.g.

6 I noted as I passed along a dead shrew mouse, as it seemed to me, among the halms; then a still toad.

1 稻草

straw strawy haulm

2 麦秆

haulm

3 秆

stalk culm haulm

4 茎

pedicular caudex member stock stick pipe stem shaft stalk stump truncheon pedicel stipe haulm caulis