AND SYNONYMS 



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Meadow Foxtail — Alopecm-us pra- 



Meadow-grass — Poa pratensis, 83 

 Meadow grasses, 27, 38, 37, 113 

 Meadow Soft-grass — JSolcus lana- 



tus 

 Mechanical tissues — tissues com- 

 posed of hard-walled cells (scle- 



renchyma) serving for support, 



62, 63, 64, 68 

 Medium grasses, 7 

 Melica—Melick, 11, 14, 16, 19, 20, 



23, 25, 26, 34, 63, 90, 91, 92, 110, 



136, 137, 142; M. ciliata, 32; 



M. nutans, 7, 17, 33, 41, 78, 



104, 105, 137 ; M. nniflora, 7, 



17, 28, 33, 40, 41, 78, 104, lOS, 



137 

 Melocanna, 128 

 Membranous ligule, 19 

 Mesophytes — plants adapted to 



ordinary conditions of moisture, 



37 

 Mibora, 68, 87, 89; M. verna, SI, 



74, 99 

 Mioropyle, IHI 



Microscopic characters, 62, 122 

 Mid-rib, 15, 20, 21, 25, 63, 67, 68, 



74 

 Milium— M.inet-gra,ss, 6, 11, 14, 20, 



22, 27, 34, 89, 91, 92, 137; M. 



effusum, 6, 28, 33, 103, 136 

 Millet — Panicum, 135 

 Millet-grass — Milium 

 Millet-seed type, 127, 135 

 Moist soils, 26, 32 

 Molinia, 8, 14, 19, 20, 40, 60, 77, 



90, 91, 92, 146, 148, 151, 171 ; M. 



caruUa, 7, 26, 29, 32, 33, 36, 37, 



4C, 59, no, 148, 149 

 Monocotyledons, 97, 134 

 Monoecious — male and female 



flowers on the same plant, 119 

 Moor-grass — Sesleria 

 Moor-grasses, 8, 20, 29, 37 

 Moor Mat-grass — Nardus stricta, 



83 

 Morphology of flower, 95, 96, 97 

 Morphology of spikelet, 94 

 Motor-cells, 25, 41, 62, 63, 64, 



65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 



76, 77, 78, 79, 80 



Mountain Melick — Melica nutans 

 Movements of awns, 125, me, 127 

 Movements of seedlings, 132 

 Mucronate — with a short point 

 suddenly springing from a 

 rounded apex, 22, 138, 139, 146, 

 149, ISO 

 Myosotis, 3 



Naked fruits, 136 



Nardus, 8, 9, 11, 14, 20, 21, 64, 65, 

 66, 67, 70, 80, 83, 87, 88, 89, 90, 

 91, 93, 94, 130, 146, 171; N. 

 stricta, 8, 9, 29, 33, 36, 46, 64, 

 69, 70, 99, 171, 173, 174 



Narrow-leafed Oat — Avena pra- 

 tensis 



Narrow Small-reed — Calamagrostis 

 stricta 



Naviculate — Boat - shaped, but 

 pointed at both ends, 16 



Nematode worms, 10 



Nerves — minute veins on palese, 

 113, 115, 128, 140, 144, 168 



Nodes, 6, 8, 12, 14, 15 



Nodules, 10 



Northern Holy-grass — Hierochloe 

 borealis 



Nucellus — the body of the ovule or 

 young seed, 122 



Nuclei, 121 



Numbers of grasses, 2 



Oat — Avena, 85, 89, 133 

 Oat-type of " seed," 156 

 Obsolete — so much reduced as to 



be practically absent, 19, 45, 48, 



115, 116 

 Obtuse — rounded off and blunt at 



the apex, 19, 91 

 Odours, 27 

 Offsets, 12 

 Olyra, 6 



One-flowered spikelets, 89 

 One-glumed Fescue — Festuca uni- 



glumis 

 Open panicle — one where the 



primary branches stand off at 



right angles from the raohis, 



112 

 Orange spiked Foxtail — Alopecurus 



fulvus 



