



PREFACE 



I have attempted in the following pages to give a short account of 

 the more important kinds of grasses that are used in the plains of 

 Northern India, either for fodder or forage. Several of the plains 

 species extend up to considerable elevations on the Himalaya, but 

 I have omitted all mention of those which are exclusively Hima- 

 layan. 



The area of country to which this report refers, and which coincides 

 with that over which my botanical investigations generally will in. 

 future be conducted, extends from the North-West frontier, and in- 

 cludes the Punjab, the North-West Provinces and Oudh, Sindh, Raj- 

 putana, Central India, and the Central Provinces. 



The books and pamphlets which have been specially consulted in the 

 preparation of this work are : — 



Aitc/iison, Catalogue of Punjab and Sindh Plants. 



Atkinson, Economic Products of the N.-W. Provinces, Part VI. 



Baden Powell, Handbook of the Economic Products of the Punjab. 



Baker, Flora of the Mauritius and the Seychelles. 



Betitham, Flora Australiensis, Vol. VII. 

 „ Flora Hongkongensis. 



„ Handbook of the British Flora. 



„ in Journ. Linn. Soc. Vol. XIX. (1882). 



Bentham and Hooker, /., Genera Plantarum, Vol. III. 



Bentley and Trimen, Medicinal Plants. 



Bonder, Flora Orientalis, Vol. V. 



Brandis, Forest Flora of North-West and Central India. 



Cosson and Durieu, Flore d'Algerie. 



Be Candolle, L'Origine des Plantes Cultivees. 



Edgeworth, Catalogue of Plants found in the Banda District. 



„ Botanico-Agricultural account of the protected Sikh 



States. 



Hooker, Student's Flora of the British Islands. 

 Jauh. and Spach, Icones Plantarum Orientalium. 



