AND SYNONYMS 
Meadow Foxtail—Alopecurus pra- 
tensis 
Meadow-grass—Poa pratensis, 83 
Meadow grasses, 27, 28, 37, 113 
Meadow Soft-grass—Holcus lana- 
tus 
Mechanical tissues—tissues com- 
posed of hard-walled cells (scle- 
renchyma) serving for support, 
62, 63, 64, 68 
Medium grasses, 7 
Melica—Melick, 11, 14, 16, 19, 20, 
23, 25, 26, 34, 63, 90, 91, 92, 110, 
136, 137, 142; M. ciliata, 32; 
De rwutans, 7, 17, 33, 41, 78, 
104, 105, 187; M. uniflora, 7, 
17, 28, 33, 40, 41, 78, 104, 105, 
137 
Melocanna, 123 
Membranous ligule, 19 
Mesophytes—plants adapted to 
ordinary conditions of moisture, 
37 
Mibora, 68, 87, 89; M. verna, 31, 
74, 99 
Micropyle, 121 
Microscopic characters, 62, 122 
Mid-rib, 15, 20, 21, 25, 63, 67, 68, 
74 
Milium—Millet-grass, 6, 11, 14, 20, 
Mot. d4,, 89, 91, 92, 187; M. 
effusum, 6, 28, 33, 108, 136 
Millet—Panicum, 135 
Millet-grass—Milium 
Millet-seed type, 127, 185 
Moist soils, 26, 32 
Molinia, 8, 14, 19, 20, 40, 50, 77, 
90, 91, 92, 146, 148, 151, 171; UW. 
caerulea, 7, 26, 29, 32, 33, 36, 37, 
46, 59, 110, 148, 149 
Monocotyledons, 97, 134 
Monecious—male and _ female 
flowers on the same plant, 119 
Moor-grass—Sesleria 
Moor-grasses, 8, 20, 29, 37 
Moor Mat-grass—Nardus _ stricta, 
83 
Morphology of flower, 95, 96, 97 
Morphology of spikelet, 94 
Motor-cells, 25, 41, 62, 68, 64, 
65, 66, 67, 69,70, 71, 13,. 74, 75, 
10, 71, :18,. 79;:: 86 
185 
Mountain Melick—WMelica nutans 
Movements of awns, 125, 126, 127 
Movements of seedlings, 132 
Mucronate—with a _ short point 
suddenly springing from a 
rounded apex, 22, 138, 139, 146, 
149, 150 
Myosotis, 3 
Naked fruits, 136 
Nardus, 8,9, 11, 14, 20, 21, 64;.65, 
66, 67, 70, 80, 83, 87, 88, 89, 90, 
91; 93,94; 130, 146,  17L; N. 
stricta, 8, 9, 29, 33, 36, 46, 64, 
69, 70, 99, 171, 173, 174 
Narrow-leafed Oat— Avena pra- 
tensis 
Narrow Small-reed—Calamagrostis 
stricta 
Naviculate — Boat-shaped, but 
pointed at both ends, 16 
Nematode worms, 10 
Nerves—minute veins on palezx, 
113, 115, 128, 140, 144, 168 
Nodes, 6, 8, 12, 14, 15 
Nodules, 10 
Northern Holy-grass—Hierochloe 
borealis 
Nucellus—the body of the ovule or 
young seed, 122 
Nuclei, 121 
Numbers of grasses, 2 
Oat—Avena, 85, 89, 133 
Oat-type of ‘‘ seed,” 156 
Obsolete—so much reduced as to 
be practically absent, 19, 45, 48, 
115, 116 
Obtuse—rounded off and blunt at 
the apex, 19, 91 
Odours, 27 
Offsets, 12 
Olyra, 6 
One-flowered spikelets, 89 
One-glumed Fescue—Festuca wni- 
glumis 
Open panicle—one where the 
primary branches stand off at 
right angles from the rachis, 
112 
Orange spiked Foxtail—A lopecurus 
fulvus 
