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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. 

 Festuceae, 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, 147-150. 



of grasses, 148. 

 Germination, 130, 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, 1.38. 



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, ISO. 



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, 1.54. 



usefulness to man, 1-2. 



fescue, 230. 

 meadow, 230. 



foxtail, 245. 



golden top, 220. 



grama, 216-217. 



Guinea, 183. 



