GENERAL INDEX. 393 



Egyptian Grass, description of, . . 63 



Elements of respiration, 223 



English Bent, natural history of, 42 



Essential parts of the plant, 12, 16 



Evaporation from the soil, 240, 241, 381 



Fall Feeding, practice of, 351, 353, 354 



" Seeding, 294, 296, 298 



False Redtop, natural history of, 81 



" Rice, description of, 26 



Feather Grass, natural history of, 57 



Fertilization, process of, 15 



Field Barley Grass, 118 



Fiuetop, 40 



Finger Grass, description of, 140 



Finger-shaped Paspalum, where found, 140 



Finger-spiked Wood Grass, description of, 148 



Fiorin, natural history of, 43 



Flesh-forming elements, 136, 220, 221, 225, 228, 230 



Floating Meadow Grass, description of, 75 



" Foxtail, natural history of, 33 



" Paspalum, where found, 139 



Flour of Wheat, composition of, 162, 163 



Flowers of the Grasses, 12, 13, 14, 16, 22, 25 



Fly-away Grass, description of, 39 



Food of Animals, nutritive value of, 219, 221, 225, 235 



Forest Trees, culture of, 360, 361 



Fowl Meadow Grass, description of, 81 



Fresh Water Cord Grass, where found, 60 



Fringed Brome Grass, description of, 107 



Gaiua Grass, description of, 147 



Genus and Species, distinction between, 17 



Goose Grass, description of, 77, 79 



Grains, climatic range of, 259, 296 



" and Grasses sown together, 294, 296 



Gramineae, the order, 11, 16, 25 



Gramma Grasses, history and distribution of, 62, 249, 254, 258 



Grasses, adapted to green manuring, 209,211,213 



" analysis of the, 23, 136, 218, 224, 226, 228, 331 



changes in the growth of, . .302,303,329 



" classification of, 11, 183, 205, 207, 216 



" climatic range of, 246, 254, 255 



" collection of, 10, 388 



" cultivation of the, 183, 184, 186, 268 



" description of the, 11, 26, 154 



" effect of soil and seasons on, 239, 241, 247 



" flowers of the, 12, 13, 14, 16, 22, 25 



" green manuring, 56, 209, 211, 214 



" growth of in sun and shade, 255, 256 



" height of cutting, 326, 327 



" importance of the, 9, 205 



" Hstof the natural, 17, 18, 20, 22, 222 



" mixtures of the, 268, 278 



" nutritive value of the, 217 



" of the Southern States, 253, 254, 255 



" studying the, 16, 17, 22, 388 



" the artificial, . . . 183,223 



" the litter, . 215 



