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Prickly comfrey 368 



Primaries, of leaves 26 



Primary meristem 2 



Pringle, C. G., grasses of Pa- 

 cific 83,83,84 



Procumbent, lying along the 

 ground. 



Progress slow 199, 200 



Proliferous 36, 37 



Proterandrous 38 



Proterogynous 38 



Protoplasm 1 



Puccinia graminis .. 416 



Pulse family 61, 320 



Pulvinus 328 



Purple bent 145 



Purselane ---- 216 



Pusey on irrigation 283 



Pythium on young grasses and 

 clovers 430 



Quack, quick, quitch, quake 

 grass, see Agropyrum rep- 

 ens 92,167 



Quack grass, how to kill 225 



In a potato 170 



Phyllachora on 424 



Smut of 415 



Quai-ts, grormd for adulterating 

 seeds _ -- 207 



Quotations left over 432 



Eaceme, an indeterminate in- 

 florescence with lengthened 

 axis and nearly equal ped- 

 icels -. 36 



Racemose, like a raceme. 

 Rachnia, the axis of a spikelet-64, 101 

 Rachis, the axis of a spike. 

 Radicle, the lower part of a seed- 

 Ung plant, the first internode 65 



Rag- weed 220 



Rain damaging hay 289 



Randall grass 126, 127 



Ravenal, A. W., on Texas mil- 

 let.. - 187 



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Recurved, curved backward or 

 downward. 



Red clover 323 



Fertilized by bees 325, 342 



Fungus on roots 426 



Red-top, seeAgrostis. 

 Regular, uniform or symmetri- 

 cal in shape. 



Reticulated cells 25 



Rhizome, a rootstock; a thick- 

 ened stem, usually below the 



surface of the ground 5, 133 



Rhode Island bent 151 



Rib grass, Plantago lanceolata, 

 65, 220. 



Rice 66 



Richardson, C. , quoted 52 



Riley, Prof. C. V., on clover- 

 leaf beetle 380 



On clover root borer 376 



Robbins, W. K., on Muhlen- 

 berg's grass ... 183 



Roberts, Prof. I. P., on clover- 

 root borer 378 



On clover sickness 343 



On orchard grass 112 



On selecting grasses and 



clovers. . -. 234 



Robinson, on lawns 309 



Rocky mountain pastures.. 82 to 88 



Romans, meadows of 197 



Root. 2, 3, 4, 42, 43 



Root-cap 2 



Root-hairs 3, 4, 43 



Root-sheath , . . 42 



Roots, of clover 324 



Depth of 3, 333 



Fewer in close pasture than 



where grass is tall 263 



Function of 49 



Of Indian corn... 45 



Roots, movements of 3, 45 



Weight of, per acre 330 



Root-stocks, see rhizome 5, 133 



Root-tip, sensitive . 45 



Rosaceae 61 



