CONTENTS. 



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INTRODUCTION 7 



PART I. COMMON PASTURE GRASSES. 



CHAPTER I. DESCRIPTION. 



GROUP I. Characteristically Coloured Grasses 13 



Red sheathed Ryegrasses and Meadow Fescue 13 



Yellow sheathed Crested Dogstail 1 6 



Dark- coloured sheath Meadow Foxtail 16 



Hairy, with a white and red veined sheath York- 

 shire Fog 17 



GROUP II. Variegated Grasses. 



Tufted Hair Grass , 18 



GROUP III. Bulbous and Flat-ribbed Grasses. 



Sheath without a keel Timothy 19 



Sheath keeled False Oat 20 



GROUP IV. Cord-rooted Grasses. 



Blade a thick, hard bristle Mat Grass 22 



Blade a thin flat band Flying Bent 22 



GROUP V. Acute sheathed Grasses. 



Blade without median lines Cocksfoot 23 



Blade with median lines Rough-stalked Meadow 

 Grass 24 



GROUP VI. See Part II. 



GROUP VII. Bitter Tasted (from Cumarin). 



Sweet Vernal Grass 25 



GROUP VIII. Bristle-bladed Grasses. 



Bristles very hard and horizontal Mat Grass 26 



Bristles erect ; ligule apparently absent Sheep's 

 Fescue and Varieties 27 



