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INDEX, GLOSSARY, 



Irritability of seedlings, 132 

 Italian Eye-grass — Lolium italicum 



Keel, 18, 33, 26, 63, 68, 69, 91, 

 113, 127, UO, 144, 146, 147, 148, 

 149, 151 



Keeled grasses, 26, 74 



Knappia — Mibora 



Kneed awns, 129, 130, 151, 153, 

 154, 158 



Kneed stem, 9 



Knot-gras s — Polygonu m 



Kceleria, 11, 14,' 19, 20, 25, 26, 



90, 91, 92, 101, 103, 110, 141, 146, 

 149; K. cristata, 8, 29, 32, 66, 

 81, 109, 148, 149 



Lacunae— air-spaces, 70, 73 

 L(/^//r»5— Hare's-tail, 76, 88, 90, 



92, 100, 101, 109 ; L. ovatiis, 31 

 Lamina — the blade of the leaf, 



63—71, 95 

 Lanceolate — narrow and tapering 



at both ends, 163 

 Lanceolate-acuminate — lanceolate, 



but the upper end drawn out to 



a long point, 163 

 Large grasses, 6 

 Lawns, 10, 37 

 Lax — loose, the spikelets on slender 



branches some distance apart, 



110, 117 

 Layed shoots, 15 

 Leaf, 17—27, 39—61, 95, 133 

 Leaf anatomy, 62—71, 72—82 

 Leaf-apex, 21 

 Leaf-base, 10, 22, 40 

 Leaf-blade — Lamina 

 Leaf characters, 4, 20 — 27 

 Leaf-margin, 22, 44, 66 

 Leaf- section, 16, 20, 62—72 

 Leaf- stalk — Petiole 

 Leaf-surface, 22, 65, 66, 67 

 Least Quaking-grass — Briza minor 

 Leathery leaves, 21 

 Let'r.s/r(— Cut-grass, 67, 70, 77, 90, 



91, 92, 105, 120; L. oryzoides, 30, 

 66, 137 



Leguminosse, 3 



Lepturus, 87, 90, 99; L.fili for mis— 



L, incurvatus ; L. incurvatus^ 



31 



Ligule, 18, 19, 45, 46, 51, 95, 113, 



133 

 Limestone species, 32 

 Linear — at least five times as long 



as broad, with parallel straight 



sides, 19 

 Linear -acuminate — linear, but 



tapering to a long point at the 



apex, 19 

 Linear-acute — linear, but pointed 



at the apex, 39 

 Linear - lanceolate — linear, but 



tapering at both ends, 19, 20, 



163, 168 

 Linear- oblong — oblong, but drawn 



out so that the sides are parallel 



for some distance, 16 

 Local grasses, 30, 31 

 Lodicules, 86, 87, 95, 96, 97 

 Lo/n/?7i— Eye-grass, 13, 14, 18, 22, 



25, 49, 50, 53, 57, 59, 82, 88, 90, 



91, 107, 108, 109, 144, 151, 167; 



L. italicum, 7, 11, 28, 31, 49; 



L.perenne, 8, 11, 16, 19, 20, 28, 



30, 32, 49, 81, 82, 93, 107, 



128, 131, 142, 143, 144, 150, 



168; L. temulentnm, 8, 10, 30, 



49, 50, 82, 92, 107, 129, 130, 



142, 150, 167, 168 

 Loose Panic-grass — Panicum Cms- 



gain 

 Lygeum, 36 

 Lyme-grass — Elymus 



Maize, 1, 89, 120 



Male flowers, 89, 90, 119 



Manna-croup — Glyceria Jiuitans 



Many-flowered spikelets, 90 



Margin of leaf, 21, 22, 66 



Marginal asperities, 22 



Maritime grasses, 29 



Marram — Psa mma 



Marsh Bent — Ayrostis alba 



Marsh Foxtail — Alopecurus geni- 



culatus 

 Marsh grasses, 28, 29 

 Mat-grass — Psamma arenaria 

 Maydese, 122 

 Meadows, 1 



Meadow Barley — Hordeum pratense 

 Meadow Fescue — Festuca elatior — 



Festuca pratensis 



