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INDEX. 



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Dentate, toothed. 



Deyeuxia Canadensis 1 79 



Diadelphous, filaments combin- 

 ing in two sets. 

 Digitately, palmately, fingered. 

 Dioecious, unisexual, the two 

 sexes borne on different 



j)lants- 38 



Distichlis, in Pacific slope 81} 



Distichous, placed in two verti- 

 cal rows 36, 64 



Distribution of seeds 100, 101 



Dock, narrow, Rumex 223 



Dodder 221 



Dodge, J. R., most valuable 



wild grasses .-- --. 81 



Need of new grasses 301 



Dog-grass 167 



Dolichos 364 



Dorsal, on the back of 36 



Downing, A. J. , on lawns 309 



Drainage, advantages of 240 



Improves the quality of 



grasses 281 



Drasteria ferechtea 387 



Drupes 62 



Drying grass, effect of 228 



Paper 11 



Duke of Bedford 199 



Duval-Jouve, on tortion of 



leaves 30 



Dying seeds 206 



Dysart, Hon. S., on saving seed 

 of Timothy 106 



Early cultivation of grasses 197 



Eel-grass 65 



Egyptian millet or grass 171 



Elaters 406 



Elements most useful to plants. 329 

 Elliott, Jared, early cultivation 

 of Timothy and Fowl 



Meadow gi-ass... 199 



Elliptical, oval or oblong with 



regularly rounded ends. 

 Elymus villosus 200 



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Embryo, a rudimentary plant 



in the seed 65 



Of Indian corn 42 



Emerson, R. W., on weeds 214 



Endogenous, plants in which the 

 fibi'O- vascular bundles of the 

 stem are scattered without 



order 64 



Endorhizal 65 



Endosperm, food stored in the 

 seed outside the embryo. 41, 42, 65 



England, grasses so^vn in 201 



Epicampes, leaf of 22 



Epichtoe 423 



Epidermis 14, 15, 28, 31 



A ff ected by climate 15 



Of poa pratensis.. 15 



Eragrostis, fertilized 39 



Ergot 420 



In agrostis _ - 213 



Ericaceae 62 



Erodium 216 



Ely siphe on grasses — 426 



Euphorbia 223 



Evaporation 27 



Evergreen grass.see Arrhenathe- 



rum. 

 Experiments of J. B. Lawes on 



grass lands 273 



Experiments, on seeds 208, 210 



Fairy-ring fungi. 430 



Falcate 363 



False red-top. 140 



Families of most worth.. 60, 61, 



62, 63, 64 



Farmyard manure on grass 

 lands 267, 269, 270 



Fermentation of hay 298 



Fertilization of the flowers of 



clovers 324 



Of grasses 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 



Fertilizers, effect of... .271, 275, 288 



Festuca. 



Arundinacea. 131 



Bees on flowers 38 



