GENERAL INDEX. 397 



Slender Hairy Lyme Gra^s, natural history of, 119 



Small Fescue, description of, 96 



Smooth Marsh Grass, " " . , . , 61 



" Erect Paspalum,,desoription. of, 139 



" Crab Grass, natural history of, 140 



Snow, eSect of on grasses, 257, 263 



Soft Brome Grass, natural history of, ...» 107 



" Lyme " description of; 119 



Soil, effect on the grasses, 12 



Soils, mixture of, 263, 264 



Sorgho Sucre, description and culture, 150, 152, 338 



Southern Eragcostis, natural history of, 95 



Specimens of Grasses, collection of, 10, 388 



Spring Wheat, yarieties of, 160, 162 



Squirrel-tail Grass, description of, 117 



Spike Grass, natural history of, 80, 108 



Star Grasses, list of the, 199 



Starch, transformation into woody fibre, 302, 329, 330 



Striped Grass, 133, 134, 135, 136 



Sterile Brome Grass, description of, 108 



Strong-scented Vilfa, natural history of, 37 



" " Meadow Grass, 93 



Stoolcing of corn, practice of, 339, 340 



Swale Grass 199, 204 



Sweet-scented Vernal Grass, . . . . " 132, 133, 134 



Swale Hay; vklue of, .'.•."..".: 199, 204, 233 



Sylvan Muhlenbergia, history of, 47 



" Spear Gra^s, description of, 81 



Tall Fescue Grass, description of, 100 



" Oat " natural history of, 127 



" B«dtop, description of, 65 



" Thin Grass, " " 39 



Technical terms, use of, 12, 14, 16, 17 



Temperature of wheat districts, 241 



Three-awned Grass, description of, 59 



Tickle Grass, " " 39 



Time of sowing grass-seed, 294, 296, 298 



Timothy, description of, 12, 17, 34, 332 



" sown with clover, 35 



" time of cutting, 299, 301, 303, 305 



Toothache Grass, natural history of, 61 



Top-dressing of grass lands, 328, 362, 367, 375, 376 



Treatment of grass lands, 351, 355, 362, 381, 385 



Truncated Koeleria, natural history of, 70 



Tufted Hair Grass, description of, 121 



Twin Grass, natural history of, 66 



Twitch " " " " 115, 116 



Upright Sea Lyme Grass, description of, 119 



Vanilla Grass, description of, 131 



Vegetation, conditions of, 239, 240 



Velvet Grass, natural history of, 129, 130 



Vilfa, rough-leaved, 37 



" hidden-flowered, 37 



Virginia Cut Grass, description of, 26, 27 



Water Hair " " " 123 



" Spear " natural history of, 75 



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