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INDEX 



Fagopyrum esculentum, 7. 

 Farm crops, value of, 4. 

 Fescue-grass, 230. 



for lawns, 63. 



meadow, 34, 230, 231. 



red, 231. 



sheep's, 231. 



various-leaved, 231. 

 Festuca, 219, 223, 230. 



elatior, 231. 



idahoensis, 232. 



ingrata, 232. 



octoflora, 232. 



ovina, 231. 

 capillata, 231, 

 duriuscula, 231. 



pratensis, 230. 



rubra, 231. 



heterophylla, 231. 



subuliflora, 132. 



viridula, 232. 

 Festucese, 156, 157, 219. 

 Field pea, 52. 

 Filaree, 26. 

 Fiorin, 204. 



Floral organs, morphology of, 112-132. 

 Florets, 118. 



sterile, 125. 

 Flowers of grasses, 112. 

 Fodder, coarse, 49. 

 Forage, classification of, 22. 



coarse, production of, 20. 

 by states, 85. 



plants, 14. 



relative importance of different kinds 

 of, 84. 

 Fowl meadow-grass, 229. 

 Foxtail, 245. 



green, 76, 184. 



grass, 77. 



meadow, 202, 203. 



millet, 185. 



yellow, 76, 184. 

 Fruit, 129-130. 



Gama-grass, 160. 

 Gardener's garters, 69, 194. 

 Gastridium, 198. 

 Genera, 152-153, 156. 



monotypic, 153. 

 Generic distribution, 149. 

 Geographical distribution, 147-160. 



of grasses, 148. 

 Germination, 136, 138. 

 Giant reed, 68, 224. 



as soil-binder, 69. 

 Glumes, 118, 121. 123. 



Glycine hispida, 53. 

 Golden top, 220. 

 Goose-grass, 76, 148. 

 Grain, 6. 



cut green, production of, 20. 

 hay, 46-47. 



miscellaneous uses of, 12. 

 Grains, germination of, 138. 

 relative importance of, 7. 

 Grama, black, 217. 

 blue, 217. 



grass, 27, 143, 216-217. 

 side oat, 217, 

 tall, 39, 217. 

 Graphephorum, 222. 

 Grass, alfa, 200. 

 Bahama, 216. 

 barnyard, 183, 

 beach, 144, 206, 

 bent, 203. 



Bermuda, 30-32, 45, 214-215. 

 billion-dollar, 184. 

 black, 40. 

 blue, 227. 



annual, 230. 



Canada, 229. 



English, 230. 



Kentucky, 228. 



Texas, 230. 

 brome, 232. 



awnless, 232, 233. 



Schrader's, 233 

 buffalo, 218. 

 bur, 187. 

 burro, 220. 

 canary, 194. 



reed, 194. 

 carpet, 180. 

 citronella, 170. 

 cocksfoot, 216, 227. 

 Colorado, 183. 

 couch, 78, 238. 

 crab, 50, 66, 76-77, 148, 181. 

 crested dog's-tail, 220. 

 crop areas, 79, 87. 

 crop, 181. 

 dog's-tooth, 216, 

 dog-town, 199. 

 esparto, 200. 

 family, 154. 



usefulness to man, 1-2. 

 fescue, 230. 



meadow, 230. 

 foxtail, 245. 

 golden top, 220, 

 grama, 216-217. 

 Guinea, 183. 



