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myXd.«..a^i^iDm I told her I could talk on grasses all day erd all ni^ht* 
She looked a^bit dubious* I'm not going to, but I canH resist Tjalking grasses 
a minute or "^p. It is almost literally true that all flesh is grass in that 
our breadstuff^ are the grains of grasses. Wheat, corn or maize, barley, rye, 
oats, rice, are'^^ll grasses, as well as sugar cane, and so are most of the 
forage plants ou^^ cattle graze upon. So ^hen we eet beef, or mutton, milk, 
cheese or butter, Ve consume grasses at second hand. The grass family is so 
important to man anS the United iitates is so blessed with vsst grasslands, 
prairies, plains and xsavannas, thbt for some 50 years grasses havG receiYed s-oecial 
study in the Depsrtme^ of Agriculture. The Grass Herbarium (Prof. Hitchcock, 
chief) ici today the laf^est fnd most complete collection of grasses in the world. 
Well, what good is it? "What is its practical use? The Herbarium and work carried 
on there is to applied bo\any-'^aiich is plant industry — what a dictionary is to 
literature. It enables peot)le to understand each other by using the same name 
for certain thing. s23r-#**Rfi^"^Tr-t%iiiB-"-wce irold"W''ir^^^^^^^ it was funny ^^^^-^ 
that en agricultural miO^etinXsaid that June grass was good, pasture; hejttiought 
it was worthless. I sasuHcted'"'the trouble and asked him to show m©. h'fs June grass , 
It ¥/as e little relative of N;he ©at, of no value; hut tlie^^-unS' grass recommended 
in the bulletin wss Poa praten^ls, Kentuciiy blu§,.,~g'ra:£s7 coramonly called June grass 
in the middle west . That is the l?ib^bj&-wifh cormaon na'-.ifj s — they lead to confusion. 
Hence for accuracy the Let in namer-'-^^ same throughout the world' for a particular 
