Avena Sativa.—Common Oat.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
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Avena sativa L.
Engl.: oat, common oat, oats, side oat.
Deu.: Hafer, Saat-Hafer.
Fran.: avoine byzantine, avoine cultivée.
Sven.: havre, vanlig havre, vipphavre.
Suom.: kaura, peltokaura.
Span.: avena, avena común.
Jap.: ma-karasu-mugi.
Bot. syn.: Avena byzantina K. Koch, Avena fatua L. ssp. sativa (L.) Thell., Avena fatua L. var sativa (L.) Hausskn., Avena hybrida Peterm. ex Reichenb. p.p., Avena orientalis Schreb.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Classic texts: The American Eclectic Dispensatory, by John King, 1854.
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Classic texts: Pereira 1854.
Classic texts: Madaus 1938.
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Classic texts: Rafinesque 1828-1830.
Classic texts: Eli Jones' Definite Medication, 1911.
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Classic texts: Sturtevant 1919.
Classic texts: Sayre 1917.
Classic texts: Petersen 1905.
Classic texts: Journals: Ellingwood 1909.
Classic texts: Felter 1922.
Classic texts: Ellingwood 1919.
Classic texts: Boericke 1901.
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