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Index 



Fesluca (contd.) 



rubra, 102 



var. fallax, 103, 151 (Fig. 108) 

 var. genuina, 102, 103, 151 (Figs. 

 96, 104, 107) 



sylvatica, 104 (Fig. 109) 



tenvifolia, 102, 150 (Figs. 101, 103) 



uniglumis, 188 

 Fibrous roots, 1, 2 (Fig. 1) 

 Field Brome Bromus arvensis, 79 

 Fine Bent Agrostis vulgaris, 56 

 Fiorin Agrostis alba, 54 

 Flat-stemmed Meadow-grass Poa com- 



pressa, 123 

 Floating Foxtail A lopecurus genicu- 



latus, 61 



Floating Sweet-grass, Glyceria fluitans 

 Floral characters, 12-15, 34-38 

 Floral diagram (Fig. 17) 

 Floral organs, 12-14 (Fig. 16) 

 Flower, 12, 13 (Fig. 16) 

 Flowering glume the outer palea 

 Flowering stem, 2-4 (Figs. 2-4, 157) 

 Flying Bent Molinia ccerulea, 118 

 Forget-me-not (Fig. 171) 

 Forms of inflorescence, 14, 34 

 Forms of leaf-blades (Fig. 12) 

 Foxtail grass Alopecurus 

 Fromental, 141 



Fruits of grasses, 16-18 (Figs. 20, 21) 

 Functions of awns, 22 

 Functions of leaves, 21 



Garden lawns, 178, 179 



Gastridium lendigerum, 188 



Genuineness of grass seeds, 163 



Germination, 18, 164, 175 



Germination energy, 165 



Germination of maize (Figs. 22, 23) 



Germ-sheath, 20 (Fig. 20) 



Giant Fescue Festuca gigantea, 100 



Girders, 7, 8 (Figs. 8, 9) 



Glabrous free from hairs 



Glaucous of a greyrgreen hue, usually 



due to a waxy bloom 

 Glumes, 14 (Fig. 18) 

 Glyceria Sweet -grass 



aquatica, 104, 152 (Figs. 90, 110, 

 111) 



fluitans, 105 (Figs. 110, 112) 

 Grain, 16-18 (Figs. 20, 21) 

 Grazing, 183 

 Grey Hair-grass Aira canescens, 58 



Habitats, 23-28 



Hair-grass Aira, 56-59 



Halophytes, 23 



Hard Fescue Festuca duriuscula, 150 



Hare's-tail Lagurus ovatus, 189 



Hay, 182 



Heath False-Brome Brachypodium 



pinnatum, 76 . 



Heath-grass Triodia decumbens, 132 

 Heath -grasses, 25 

 Hieracium Pilosella (Fig. 173) 

 Hierochloe borealis, 189 

 Hispid covered with long stiff hairs 

 Holcus Soft-grass 



lanatus, 106 (Figs. 113, 114) 



mollis, 108 (Figs. 115, 116) 

 Holy -grass Hierochloe, 189 

 Hordeum Barley, 109 



maritimum, 111 



murinum, 109 (Figs. 117, 118) 



pratense, 111 (Fig. 117) 



sylvaticum, 112 



Hungarian Forage Grass, 87, 141 

 Hydrophytes, 23, 25 



Impurities of Grass-seeds, 163 (see also 

 under each species in Chapter 

 VIII) 



Inflorescence, 12-15, 34-38 



Internode, 2 



Intra-vaginal shoots, 2 



Involute rolled inwards 



Italian Rye-grass Lolium italicum, 

 155 



Keeled having a ridge on the back 



like the keel of a boat 

 Keel of sheath, 5 (Fig. 6) 

 Kentucky Blue-grass, 160 

 Key to Seeds, 38-49 

 Kneed awns (Figs. 52, 55 and 58) 

 Kneed stems (Fig. 49) 

 Kosleria cristata, 112 (Figs. 119, 120) 



Lagurus ovatus Hare's-tail, 189 



Lamina the leaf-blade 



Lanceolate narrow and tapering at 



both ends 



Lapsana communis (Fig. 163) 

 Lawn-mixtures, 178 

 Lawns, 179 

 Lax loose, the spikelets distinctly 



separated 



Leaf -blade Lamina, 6-11 

 Leaf characters, 6-11, 28-34 

 Leaf -sections (Figs. 8-11) 

 Leaf -sheath, 4-6 

 Leaves, 4, 21 (Fig. 12) 

 Leersia oryzoides, 189 

 Leguminosje, 169, 185, 186 

 Lepturus incurvatus. 189 

 Leys, 176, 179 

 Ligule, 10 (Fig. 13) 

 Limestone grasses, 24 

 Linear many times longer than broad, 



with parallel sides 



