INDEX 



291 



Sotol, 213 



Source indicators of seeds, 266 



Source of seeds, means of detecting, 266 



Sowing of corn, 160 



Soy, 184, 201; as a human food, 204; 

 cultivation of, 203; description of, 

 201; harvesting of, 203; nutritive 

 value of, 204; protein content of, 203; 

 rotations, 203; uses of, 204; varieties 

 of, 201 



Spartein, 71 



Spatulate, broader at the apex and nar- 

 rowe'd at the base like a spatula. 



Spelt, 165 



Spelt wheats, 165 



Spergula sativa, 213 



Spikelet, the ultimate division of a grass 

 inflorescence. 



Spikelets of grasses, 125 



Spinacia oleracea, 229 



Spinach, 229; New Zealand, 229 



Spratt, Ethel R., work on leguminous 

 nodules, 220 



Spurges as poisonous plants, 79 



Spurrey, 213 



Squamula of grasses, 126 



Squash, 232 



Squirrel-tail grass, injury by, 3 



Stachys Sieboldii, 226 



Stagger-bush, 95 



Stagger-grass, 51 



Staggerwort, 109 



Stamen, the male organ of the flower, its 

 anther producing the pollen. 



Staminate, of or pertaining to the stamen. 



Standard of feeding, 121 



Staphisagrin, 6/ 



Starch from corn, 160 



Stertorous, pertaining to deep snoring, or 

 laborious breathing. 



Stebler's classification of source indica- 

 tors, 266 



Stellaria media, 255 



Stem crops, 227 



Stemless locoweed, 74 



Stems of grasses, 123 



Stereo-isomerides, isomeric bodies in 

 which the same atoms or radicals 

 in tri-dimensional representations 

 of the molecules are in different 

 positions. 



Stinking Willy in Nova Scotia, 109 



Stipa capillata, injury by, 3 



Stipe, the stalk of a pistil; or of a toad- 

 stool. 



Stipulate, having stipules or outgrowths 

 at the base of the leaf-stalk. 



St. John's wort as a poisonous plant, 86 



Stool, the evacuation of the bowels; 

 feces; in grasses, one of the shoots 

 which arises in a cluster from the 

 roots. 



Stools in grasses, 124 



Stover, 117 



Strawberry, 233 



Study of grasses, methods, 153 



Sublimation, 97 



Sublimable principles, 97 



Sudan grass seed, impurities of, 263 



Sugar cane, 128, 227 



Sulla, 212 



Sunflower, 213 



Susceptibility, individual, 15; specific dif- 

 ferences, 14 



Swede turnip, 225 



Sweet cherry, 232 



Sweet clover, 184, 254; as a soil renovator, 

 198; description of, 196; seed impuri- 

 ties of, 264; nutritive value. 198 



Sweet pea, 185 



Sweet potato, 225 



Sweet vernal grass and hay-fever, 1 1 2 



Sweet vernal grass, 140 



Symmetrical, having the same number, or 

 a multiple of the same number of 

 parts in the three outer whorls of 

 the flower. 



Symphytum asperrimum, 213 



Symptoms of poisoning by muscarin, 34 



Syncarpous, the condition of the pistil 

 where its carpels, or divisions, are 

 united together. 



