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INDEX 



LIST OF SYNONYMS AND GLOSSARY OF TERMS 



Absolute weight of seeds, 165, 174 

 Acuminate taper-pointed 

 Acute sharply pointed 

 Adaptations, 14, 21, 22 

 Adulterants, 163 



Adventitious roots, 1 (Figs. 22, 23) 

 Agricultural Uses, 133162 

 Agropyrum Wheat-grass 



caninum, 54 (Figs. 28, 30) 



junceum, 54 



repens, 51 (Figs. 27, 29) 

 Agrostis Bent -grass, 54 



alba, 54, 56 



canina, 56 (Fig. 36) 



palustris (Fig. 31) 



repens, 54 (Fig. 33) 



setacea, 56 



Spica-venti, 56 (Fig. 37) 



stolonifera, 54, 134, (Figs. 32, 34) 



vulgaris, 56 (Figs. 32, 35) 

 A ira Hair-grass 



alpina, 188 



ccespitosa, 56 (Figs. 10, 38, 39, 40) 



canescens, 58 



caryophyllea, 59 (Figs. 42, 43) 



flexuosa, 57, 140 (Figs. 41, 42) 



prcecox, 59 

 Air-spaces, 8 

 A lopecurus Foxtail-grass 



agreslis, 61 (Figs. 46, 47, 48) 



alpinus, 188 



bulbosus, 188 



fulvus, 188 



geniculatus, 61 (Figs. 49, 50) 



pratensis, 59, 135 (Figs. 9, 44, 45, 



46, 150) 



Alpine Meadow-grass Poa alpina, 122 

 Ammophila arundinacea = Psamma are- 



naria 



Animal distribution of seeds, 22 

 Annual Meadow-grass Poa annua, 122 

 A nthoxanihum Vern al - grass 



odoratum, 61, 138 (Figs. 51, 52) 



Pudii, 63, 139 



Apera Spic-a-venti = Agrostis Spica-venti 

 Aquatic grasses, 25 (Figs. 90, 110) 

 Arrhenatherum False Oat-grass 



avena.cewn, 63, 140 (Figs. 53, 55) 



var. bidbosum, 141 (Fig. 54) 

 Arundo Phragmites, 66 (Fig. 56) 



Auricles ear- like projections at the 

 base of the leaf-blade, 10 (Fig. 13) 

 Arena Oat-grass, 68 



el<itior = Arrhenatherum avenaceum 

 fatua, 73 (Figs. 60, 62) 

 flavescens, 68, 139 (Figs. 57, 58) 

 nuda (Figs. 14, 15) 

 pratensis^ 70 (Figs. 59, 61) 

 pubescens, 72 

 strigosa, 74 



Awn, a bristle-like appendage or exten- 

 sion of the paleae, etc. ; in cereals 

 known as the "beard," 14, 38 

 Awned seeds, 39 



Awnless Brome Bromus inermis, 141 

 Awnless seeds, 46 

 Awn-point, 38 (Figs. 88, 107) 

 Axil the upper angle formed at the 

 insertion of a leaf, branch, etc., 2 

 Axis the central line of any body; 

 the central part supporting a 

 series of branches, etc., 14, 15, 

 16 (Fig. 17) 



Barley see Hordeum 

 Barren- Brome Bromus slerilis, 82 

 Barren flowers, 65, 107 (Figs. 114, 116) 

 Basal -awri, 38, 44 (Figs. 40, 41) 

 Bearded Darnel Lolium temulentum 

 Bearded Wheat-grass Agropyrum cani- 



num 



Bent -grass Agrostis sps. 54-56 

 Biology, 18-22 

 Blade of leaf , 6-11 

 Blue Moor-grass Sesleria ccerulea 

 Bowling greens, 178 

 Brachypodium False Brome 



pinnatum, 76 (Fig. 64) 



sylvaticum, 74 (Figs. 63, 66) 

 Bracteoles, 14 

 Bracts, 14 

 Branching, 2, 3 

 Bristle-like leaves, 33, 34 

 Bristle Oat Avena strigosa 

 Briza Quaking-grass 



media, 77 (Figs. 65, 69) 



minor, 78 

 Bromus Brome-grass, 79-89 



arvensis, 79 (Figs. 67, 68) 



asper, 85 (Figs. 77, 78) 



