Annual—Living through one season only.
Anther—The upper part of the stamen containing the pollen or fertilizing powder.
Awn— A bristle-like process pro eeding from or attached_ to the glumes or palets of come grasses. Biennial—Living through two seasons. Boat-shaped—Concave within and convex without, as the glumea and palets 01 some flowers.
Bristles—Short, stiff hairs.
Bulbous—The base of the stem thickened so as to make a hard, roundish masa, as in Timothy graaa (Phleum pratense).
Ccespitose—Growing in bnnches or tufts. Cauline—Relating to or growing from the stem or culm. the margin fringed with hairs.
Calm—The stem or straw of a grass; when the stem creeps upon or under the ground it is called a rhizoma.
Decumbent—Leaning on the ground at the lower part but rising at the top.
Digitate- Branching finger-like from a common center, as the spikes of Crab-grass (Panicum sanguinale). Dicecious—The two sexes separated and growing on differ ent plan's. ae in Buffalo grass (Backlog dactyloides). En tire—Wi ihout notches on the margin.
Exa(rted- Protruded beyond the flower, as the stamens. of grasees usually are when in bloom. Fertile—Producing fruit.
Fibrous—Composed of thread-like fibers, as the roots of most grasses.
little flower; apair of palets with the inclosed stamens and pistil. There may be many of these in apikelet.
Glabrous—Smooth; destitute of hairs or roughness. Glames—The outer or lower pair of bracts or acalea in a.
spikelet, and inclosing one or more, sometimes.
many, flowers or florets.
Hirsute- Rough-haired, bearded.
Indigenous—Growing naturally in a country.
j Internode—The apace between the nodes or joints. Keel—A sharp ridge along the middle of a Blume or palet resembling the keel of a boat.
Lamina or Blade—The extended part of a leaf, generally open and flat, but sometimes rolled inward longitudi nally, when it is said to be involute.
Ligule—A small leaf-like appendage, usually thin and semi-transparent' (membranaceoua), found at the lower psrt of the leaf or at tbe top of the sheath. It is said to be entire when there are no diviaiona in its outliner; bifid, when it is divided at the apex into t0 o parts; lacerated, when it is cut or divided on the margin; truncated, when the upper part terminates abruptly in a transverse line, as if cot off.
Membranaceous—Thin and translucent, like a membrane.
Rib-like elevations on the leaves, glumes, and_ paleta.
Neutral having neither stamens nor pistil. in tbe culm where the leaves are given off. Oblong—Longer than wide, with the olden nearly parallel. pointed.
Ovary—The portion of a flower containing the ovules seetla.
Patel or inner scales or bracts inclosing the stamens and platil.
Tbe flowering part of the stem or culm grasaes, usually composed of a number of aeriea whorls of branches or rays, which are again divided into secondary branches. These may be short and close to the stem, e r they may be long and spreading..
Perennial-Living fur more than two years; indefinitely. Pistil-The central organ of a fe tile flower, usua.ly con aiming of an ovary, style, and stigma.
Pollen -The fertilizing powder contained in the anthers. P abescent-Covered with soft hairs.
Paellas -The name given to that kind of flowering branch where the flowers are arraoged closely together on its sides without stalks or pedicels, as in Paspalum, and in the ultimate branches of the panicle.
Radical leaves - Those growing from the root.
Spikelet-The ultimate divisions of the panicles or flower heads; they may be one-flowered. that is, a pair of glumes enveloping a single flower of a pair of palets (or sometimes one palet) with the inclo-ed stamens and pistil; or they may be two or more flowered, there being but one pair of glumes to each spikelet, whether it he one or many flowered.
Sheath-That part of the leaf which clasps the stem; it answers to the petiole or leaf-stalk.
Spike-When the flowers are sessile or without branches, as in Timothy grass (Phleum pratensel.
Stamens -The organs of the flower which contain the pol len, consisting of the lament and the anthers. extremity of the pistil which receives the pollen.
Whorl-A number of leaves or branches starting from one line on the stem.