AND SYNONYMS 
Spikate inflorescence, 99, 106 
Spike, 9, 87, 88, 90, 99, 100, 101, 
102, 106, 108 
Spiked Fescue—Festuca loliacea 
Spikelet, 9, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 
90, 93, 94, 95, 97, 99—118, 
119, 120, 123, 124 
Spike-like panicle, 9, 88, 90, 102 
Spinescent leaf, 22 
Spinifex, 125 
Split sheath, 5, 17, 18, 19 
Split-sheathed grasses, 17, 18, 19, 
45, 50 
Sporobolus, 123, 134 
Squirrel-tail grass— Hordeum mari- 
timum 
Stamen, 86, 87, 89, 93, 94, 95, 96, 
97, 102, 103, 119 
Staminate—a flower with stamens 
and no ovary, 100, 105, 106 
Starch, 120, 121, 122 
Stem, 4, 6, 8 
Steppes, 1, 36, 38 
Stigma—stigmatic plumes, 86, 87, 
93, 94, 96, 97, 119, 120, 121 
Stipa, 36, 96, 126; S. capillata, 
i558: pennata, 32,.125; S. 
spartea, 125 
Stolon, 10, 12, 35, 114 
Stoloniferous grasses, 8, 13, 14, 15 
Stomata, 25, 36, 62, 64, 65, 67, 70, 
73, 77, 80, 95 
Strand-plants, 36 
Stringy roots, 8 
Striped grass—Digraphis arundi- 
nacea 
Struggle for existence, 2, 37, 38 
Style, 94, 97, 99 
Sub-acute—hardly pointed, 142 
Sub-sessile—very shortly stalked, 
so as to be all but sessile, 99, 106 
Sub-terminal awn, 95, 115, 129, 
130, 150, 151, 152, 162, 163—168, 
169 
Subulate—awl-shaped: stouter than 
setaceous, 19, 20, 21, 70, 71, 79 
Sugar, 120, 121, 122 
Sugar-cane, 1 
Sun-plants, 36 
Sweet-tasting grasses, 39 
Sweet Vernal grass—Anthoxanthum 
odoratum 
189 
Sympodium, 11 
Tall Brome—Bromus giganteus 
Tall Fescue—Festuca elatior 
Tapering leaves, 21 
Tastes, 27 
Temperate species, 2 
Terete—cylindrical and gradually 
tapering, 6, 54, 163, 171 
Terminal awn, 92, 111, 115, 116, 
126, 180, 162, 168—174, 173 
Texture of leaf, 21 
Three-flowered spikelets, 90 
Timothy—Phleum pratense 
Tomentose—softly hairy, 59 
Transpiration, 20 
Transverse sections of leaves, 16, 
23, 24, 63, 64 
Transverse section of shoot, 15, 16 
Triodia—Heath-grass, 11, 14, 19, 
25, 26, 90, 91, 103, 139; FP: de- 
cumbens, 8, 29, 34, 110, 123 
Trisetum flavescens—Avena  fla- 
vescens 
Triticum—Wheat ; T. acutum—T. 
laxum ; T. junceum—A gropyrum 
junceum; T, lacum—Agropyrum 
laxum; T. pungens—T. laxum ; 
T. repens—Agropyrum repens 
Tropical species, 1, 2 
Truncate, 92, 142 
Tuber, 8 
Tufted grasses, 13, 14 
Tufted Hair-grass—Aira cespitosa 
Tufted inflorescences, 90, 99, 102, 
103, 109 
Tusie;) 5,.°9,12.,43.. 37 
Tumble-weeds, 125 
Turgescence—the distension of cells 
with water which they have ab- 
sorbed, 63 
Tussocks, 13 
Twisted awns, 116, 125, 126, 129, 
130, 151, 154, 158 
Twisting of seedling leaves, 133 
Twitch—certain persistent weeds 
belonging to the genera Agro- 
pyrum, Agrostis, Holcus, ete.: 
see Couch-grass, 52, 57, 59 
Two-flowered spikelets, 90 
U-shaped leaf-sections, 20 
