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INDEX, GLOSSARY, 



Irritability of seedlings, 132 

 Italian Bye-grass — Lolium italicum 



Keel, 18, 23, 26, 63, 68, 69, 91, 

 113, 127, 140, 144, 146, 147, 148, 

 149, 151 



Keeled grasses, 26, 74 



Knappia — Mibora 



Kneed awns, 129, 130, 151, 158, 

 154,, 158 



Kneed stem, 9 



Knot-grass — Polygonum 



Kceleria, 11, 14, 19, 20, 25, 26, 



90, 91, 92, 101, 103, 110, 141, 146, 

 149; K. cristata, 8, 29, 32, 66, 

 81, 109, 148, 149 



Lacunse — air-spaces, 70, 73 

 LaguTiLS — Hare's-tail, 76, 88, 90, 



92, 100, 101, 109 ; L. ovatus, 31 

 Lamina — the blade of the leaf, 



63—71, 95 

 Lanceolate — narrow and tapering 



at both ends, 163 

 Lanceolate-acuminate — lanceolate, 



but the upper end drawn out to 



a long point, 163 

 Large grasses, 6 

 Lawns, 10, 37 

 Lax — loose, the spikelets on slender 



branches some distance apart, 



110, 117 

 Layed shoots, 15 

 Leaf, 17—27, 39—61, 95, 133 

 Leaf anatomy, 62—71, 72—82 

 Leaf-apex, 21 

 Leaf-base, 10, 22, 40 

 Leaf-blade — Lamina 

 Leaf characters, 4, 20 — 27 

 Leaf-margiu, 22, 44, 66 

 Leaf-section, 16, 20, 62—72 

 Leaf- stalk — Petiole 

 Leaf-surface, 22, 65, 66, 67 

 Least Quaking-grass — Briza minor 

 Leathery leaves, 21 

 iecrsia— Cut-grass, 67, 70, 77, 90, 



91, 92, 105, 120; L. oryzoides, 30, 

 66, 137 



LeguminosEB, 3 



Lepturus, 87, 90, 99; L.fiUformis — 



L. incurvatus ; L. incwvatus, 



31 



Ligule, 18, 19, 45, 46, 51, 95, 113, 



133 

 Limestone species, 32 

 Linear — at least five times as long 



as broad, with parallel straight 



sides, 19 

 Linear - acuminate — linear, but 



tapering to a long point at the 



apex, 19 

 Linear-acute — linear, but pointed 



at the apex, 39 

 Linear - lanceolate — linear, but 



tapering at both ends, 19, 20, 



163, 168 

 Linear- oblong — oblong, but drawn 



out so that the sides are parallel 



for some distance, 16 

 Local grasses, 30, 31 

 Lodicules, 86, 87, 95, 96, 97 

 Lolium — Eye-grass, 13, 14, 18, 22, 



25, 49, 50, 53, 57, 59, 82, 88, 90, 



91, 107, 108, 109, 144, 151, 167; 



L. italicum, 7, 11, 28, 31, 49; 



L.perenne, 8, 11, 16, 19, 20, 28, 



30, 32, 49, 81, 82, 93, 107, 



128, 131, 142, 143, 144, 150, 



168 ; L. temulentum, 8, 10, 30, 



49, 50, 82, 92, 107, 129, 130, 



142, 150, 167, 168 

 Loose Panic-grass — Panicum Grm- 



galli 

 Lygeum, 36 

 Lyme-grass — Blymiis 



Maize, 1, 89, 120 

 Male flowers, 89, 90, 119 

 Manna-croup — Glyceria fluitans 

 Many-flowered spikelets, 90 

 Margin of leaf, 21, 22, 66 

 Marginal asperities, 22 

 Maritime grasses, 29 

 Marram — Psamma 

 Marsh Bent — Agrostis alba 

 Marsh Foxtail — Alopecurus geni- 

 culate 

 Marsh grasses, 28, 29 

 Mat-grass — Psamma arenaria 

 Maydese, 122 

 Meadows, 1 



Meadow Barley — Hordeum pratense 

 Meadow Fescue — Festuca elatior — 

 Festuca pratensis 



