GENERAL INDEX. 393 



Egyptian Grass, description of, ...63 



Elements of respiration, 223 



English Bent, natural history of, 42 



Essential parts of the plant, 12, 16 



Evaporation from the soil, 240, 241, 381 



Fall Feeding, practice of, 351, 353, 354 



" Seeding 294, 296, 298 



False Redtop, natural history of, 81 



" Rice, description of, 26 



Feather Grass, natural history of, 57 



Fertilization, process of, 15 



Field Barley Grass, 118 



Finetop, 40 



Finger Grass, description of, 140 



Finger-shaped Paspalum, where found, 140 



Finger-spiked Wood Grass, description of, 148 



Fiorin, natural history of, 43 



Flesh-toruiing elements, 136, 220, 221, 225, 228, 230 



Floating Meadow Grass, description of, 75 



" Foxtail, natural history of, 33 



" Paspalum, where found, 139 



Flour of Wheat, composition of, 162, 163 



Flowers of the Grasses 12, 13, 14, 16, 22, 25 



Fly-away Grass, description of, 39 



Food of Animals, nutritive value of, 219, 221, 225, 235 



Forest Trees, culture of, 360, 361 



Fowl Meadow Grass, description of, 81 



Fresh Water Cord Grass, where found, 60 



Fringed Erome Grass, description of, 107 



Gama Grass, description of, 147 



Genus and Species, distinction between, 17 



Goose Grass, description of, 77, 79 



Grains, climatic range of, 259, 296 



" and Grasses sown together, 294, 296 



Graminese, the order, 11, 16, 25 



Gramma Grasses, history and distribution of, 62, 249, 254, 258 



Grasses, adapted to green manuring, 209,211,213 



" analysis of the, 23, 136, 218, 224, 2'/6, 228, 331 



" changes in the growth of, 302,303,329 



" classification of, 11, 183, 205, 207, 216 



" climatic range of, 246, 254, 255 



" collection of, 10, 388 



" cultivation of the, 183, 184, 186, 268 



description of the, 11, 26, 154 



effect of soil and seasons on, 239, 241, 247 



flowersof the, 12, 13, 14, 16, 22, 25 



green manuring, 56, 209, 211, 214 



growth of in sun and shade, 255, 256 



" height of cutting, 326,327 



" importance of the, 9, 205 



list of the natural, 17, 18, 20, 22, 222 



mixtures of the, 268, 278 



" nutritive value of the, 217 



of the Southern States, 253, 254, 255 



studying the, 16, 17, 22, 388 



the artificial, 183,223 



the litter, 215 



