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INDEX, GLOSSARY, AND SYNONYMS 



XJniola, 97 



Upright Brome — Bromus erectus. 



Also B. madritensis 

 Uses of grasses, 1, 2 



V-shaped leaf-sections, 20, 53, 73 

 Vagabond grasses, 29, 32, 34 

 Variability, 26 

 Vascular bundles, 21, 22, 62, 63, 



64, 6S, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 75, 



76, 78, 80, 81 

 Vascular-bundle sheath, 68, 95, 



122 

 Vegetative organs, 4 

 Veins, 18, 21, 22, 68, 76, 91 

 Venation, 21, 62, 67, 68 

 Vermin, 36 



Vernal grass — Anthoxanthum, 83 

 Vernation — folding of the leaves in 



bud, 21 

 Versatile — hung loosely so as to 



turn freely, 94 

 Vessels, 67 



Violet-brown sheath, 18 

 Viviparous grasses, 112, 114, 134 

 Vulpia Myui-us — Festuea Myurus ; 



V. uniglumis — Festuea uniglumis 



Wall Barley — Hordeum murinum 

 Wall Fescue — Festuea Myurus 

 Walls, grasses of, 29 

 Waste-places, 29 

 Water-storing tissues, 36, 70 

 Water Whorl-grass — Gatabrosa 



aquatiea 

 Wavy Hair-grass — Aira Jlexuosa 

 Wavy Meadow-grass — Poa laxa 

 Wax, 36, 70 



Web — minute tufted soft hairs at 

 the base of the caryopsis, 113, 

 114, 127, 131, 138, 139, 140, 

 141 



Weeds, 27, 28, 29, 35 



Wheat— Tniicam, 1, 120, 127, 132, 

 133 



Wheat-grass — Agropyrum 



Whorl-grass — Catabrosa 



Wild Oat — Avena fatua, 117 



Wind-borne seeds, 125, 126 



Wings, 125, 142 



Wood Barley — Hordeum sylvaticum 



Wood False-Brome — Braehypodium 

 sylvaticum 



Wood Meadow-grass — Poa nemo- 

 ralis 



Wood Melick — Meliea uniflora 



Wood Poa — Poa nemoralis 



Wood-species, 28, 33 



Woolly Holcus — Holcus lanatus 



Xenia — cases where the direct 

 influence of the pollen is evident 

 on the seed resulting from its 

 action, 120 



Xerophilous — of the nature of a 

 xerophyte, 70 



Xerophytes — plants adapted to dry 

 situations, 24, 25, 36, 37, 38, 68, 

 70 



Xylem, 67 



Yellow Oat-grass — Avena Jlavescens 

 Yellow-sheathed grasses, 18 

 Yorkshire Fog— Holeus lanatus, 152 



Zostera, B 



CAMBBIBOE : PBINTED BY J. AND C. F. CLAY, AT THE UNIVERSITY FBESS. 



