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XXI .—Grasses and other Forage Plants. 
By Alfred Brown. 
(Read 13th January, 1898.) 
In these notes on Agricultural Grasses and Forage Plants, I shall 
only be able to touch the borders of the subject, as the time at my 
disposal is rather limited. 
Members of this large family. The Graminece^ are, as we all know, 
found in every clime and thrive in every range of temperature, from 
the Polar lands to the Equator, from the low-lying shores of the sea 
to the Alpine limits of perpetual snow. 
Of all our flowering plants perhaps there are none so important to 
mankind as the grasses; the various uses they are put to are too 
numerous to mention. 
For convenience we might divide them roughly into at least 
three classes :— 
I St. Those of which the seed is used as food for mankind, and 
which are generally called cereals. 
2nd. Those grasses which we cultivate for their foliage, and which 
the farmer uses for pasture or forage. 
3rd. Those grasses which the farmer looks on as weeds, but 
