CONTENTS 
FIELDWORK: INTRODUCTORY TO CHAPTER II . * . . . 
CHAPTER I. STRUCTURE. 
Embryonic grass-plant. — Germination. — Root-system, — Leaves, — 
Culm,.—Inflorescence.—Spikelets. —-Glumes.— Flower.—Fruit . . 
CHAPTER II. HABITATS AND DELINEATIONS OF BRITISH SPECIES, 
Meadows and pastures.—Uplands, heaths, and moors.—Riversides, 
ponds, and marshy places.—Woods, copses, and shrubby places,— 
Seashore.—Cultivated fields.—Waste ae sandy and chalky fields. 
—Mountains é . . . . . . 
CHAPTER III. CLASSIFICATION, 
Gramineze among other orders.—Primary division.—Tribes and genera 
(British)—World’s tribes and important genera . oR F F 
CHAPTER IV. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION, 
Grass vegetation of different regions.—Distribution of leading genera 
and of British species. —The cereal grasses : ancient distribution and 
races; climatal limits; distribution and cultivation at the present 
day . « * . . . . . . . . ‘ . 
CHAPTER V. USES. 
Food: The cereals as breadstuffs; alcoholic beverages; sugar ; 
herbage and grains for animals.—Various arts and manufactures: 
paper-making ; cordage; miscellaneous uses of bamboo and other 
grasses ; medicinal uses ; Economy in Nature.—Ornament . : 
INDEX TO CHAPTER II, 
Latin names and synonyms,—English names. . ’ : 7 
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