184 
Irritability of seedlings, 132 
Italian Rye-grass—Lolium italicum 
Keel, 18, 23, 26, 63, 68, 69, 91, 
113, 127, 140, 144, 146, 147, 148, 
149, 151 
Keeled grasses, 26, 74 
Knappia—Mibora 
Kneed awns, 129, 130, 151, 153, 
154, 158 
Kneed stem, 9 
Knot-grass—Polygonum 
Keleria, 11, 14, 19, 20, 25, 26, 
90, 91, 92, 101, 103, 110, 141, 146, 
149; K. cristata, 8, 29, 32, 66, 
81, 109, 148, 149 
Lacun#—air-spaces, 70, 73 
Lagurus—Hare’s-tail, 76, 88, 90, 
92, 100, 101, 109; L. ovatus, 31 
Lamina—the blade of the leaf, 
63—71, 95 
Lanceolate—narrow and tapering 
at both ends, 163 
Lanceolate-acuminate—lanceolate, 
but the upper end drawn out to 
a long point, 163 
Large grasses, 6 
Lawns, 10, 37 
Lax—loose, the spikelets on slender 
branches some distance apart, 
110, 117 
Layed shoots, 15 
Leaf, 17—27, 39—61, 95, 133 
Leaf anatomy, 62—71, 72—82 
Leaf-apex, 21 
Leaf-base, 10, 22, 40 
Leaf-blade—Lamina 
Leaf characters, 4, 20—27 
Leaf-margiu, 22, 44, 66 
Leaf-section, 16, 20, 62—72 
Leaf-stalk—Petiole 
Leaf-surface, 22, 65, 66, 67 
Least Quaking-grass—Briza minor 
Leathery leaves, 21 
Leersia—Cut-grass, 67, 70, 77, 90, 
91, 92,105, 120; L. oryzoides, 30, 
66, 137 
Leguminose, 3 
Lepturus, 87, 90, 99; L. filiformis— 
L. incurvatus; L. incurvatus, 
31 
INDEX, GLOSSARY, 
Ligule, 18, 19, 45, 46, 51, 95, 113, 
133 
Limestone species, 32 
Linear—at least five times as long 
as broad, with parallel straight 
sides, 19 
Linear-acuminate—linear, but 
tapering to a long point at the 
apex, 19 
Linear-acute—linear, but pointed 
at the apex, 39 
Linear - lanceolate — linear, but 
tapering at both ends, 19, 20, 
163, 168 
Linear-oblong—oblong, but drawn 
out so that the sides are parallel 
for some distance, 16 
Local grasses, 30, 31 
Lodicules, 86, 87, 95, 96, 97 
Lolium—Rye-grass, 13, 14, 18, 22, 
25, 49, 50, 53, 57, 59, 82, 88, 90, 
91, 107, 108, 109, 144, 151, 167; 
L. italicum, 7, 11, 28, 31, 49; 
LL. perenne, 8, 11, 16, 19, 20, 28, 
30, 32, 49, 81, 82, 93, 107, 
128, 131, 142, 143, 144, 150, 
168; L. temulentum, 8, 10, 30, 
49, 50, 82, 92, 107, 129, 130, 
142, 150, 167, 168 
Loose Panic-grass—Panicum Crus- 
galli 
Lygeum, 36 
Lyme-grass—Elymus 
Maize, 1, 89, 120 
Male flowers, 89, 90, 119 
Manna-croup—Glyceria flwitans 
Many-flowered spikelets, 90 
Margin of leaf, 21, 22, 66 
Marginal asperities, 22 
Maritime grasses, 29 
Marram—Psamma 
Marsh Bent—Agrostis alba 
Marsh Foxtail—Alopecurus geni- 
culatus 
Marsh grasses, 28, 29 
Mat-grass—Psamma arenaria 
Maydeew, 122 
Meadows, 1 
Meadow Barley—Hordeum pratense 
Meadow Fescue—Festuca elatior— 
Festuca pratensis 
