(II.) DESCRIPTIVE TERMS, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. 



In this section, numerous figures of our native and cultivated 

 grasses are brought together, chiefly for the purpose of explaining 

 the application of the terms used to designate the various parts of 

 grasses. This method of presenting the terms has been adopted 

 in preference to the usual glossary, and by having them finally 

 presented in alphabetical order, with figure references, it is hoped 

 that the present method will prove more satisfactory. By a 

 careful study of the figures and their accompanying descriptions, 

 the reader will hardly fail to gain a fair knowledge of the descrip- 

 tive terms employed in works on grasses. The figures serve a 

 further purpose of illustrating many of the species named in 

 Section I. By having the Latin name, it is a simple matter to 

 refer to Section I, where this name occurs according to its 

 initial letter, and learn something of the character or habit of 

 the grass. 



Note : In this Section — 

 Figures 29, 30 31, 35 (in part), 36, 41, 43, 45 47, 48, 51, 54 (in part), 56, 59, 60, 

 67, 68 (in part), 69 (in part), 70 ^in part), 71 and 72, are after 

 Nees (Gen. PL Fl. Germ., Vol. I.) 

 ** 87, 38, 42, 53 and 55, are after Gray, (Manual of Botany.) 

 " 32, From Botanical Magazine, PI. 6414. 

 " 33, 57, after Trinius (5pec. G!r«7n. Icon.) 

 ** 35, Le Maout & Decaisue (in part.) 

 '' 68, 69, 70, after Miill-Guyot (in part.) 

 " 34, 46, 61, loaned by Peter Henderson t'c Co. 



28, 44, 49, 52, 58, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, loaned by the Xorth Carolina Agr. 

 Expr. Station. 

 " 50, after Beal, (Grasses of North America.) 

 *' 39, from Hackel's True Grasses. 



