Annual—Living through one aeaaon only.
Anther—The upper part of the stamen containing the. pollen or fertilizing powder.
Awn— A briatle-like process pro eeding from or attaebed_ to the glumes or palets of some grasses. Biennial--Living through two aeaaons. Boat-shaped—Concave within and convex without, aa the glumea and palets ol some flowera.
Bristles—Short, stiff hairs.
Bulbous—The base of the stern thickened so as to make a hard, roundish masa, aa in Timothy grana (Phleum pratense).
Ccespitose —Growing in bnnehes or tnfta.
Caulin e—lielating to or growing from the atem or eulm. the margin fringed with hairs. Cu/m—The stem or straw of a grass; when the stern 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 (Buck log dactyloides). tire—Wi ihout notches on the margin.
Ex,a(rted- Protruded beyond the flower, as the atamens, of grasses usually are when in bloom. Fertile—Producing fruit.
Fibrous—Composed of thread-like fibers, aa the roota most grasses.
Perennial-Living for more than o years; indefinitely.
Pistil-The central organ of a fe tile flower, usua.ly con aiming of au oval y, style and stigma.
Pollen- The fertilizing powder contained in the anthers. Pnbescent-Covered with soft hairs.
Rach28 -The name given to that kind of flowering branch where the flowers are arranged closely together on Its sides without stalks or pedicels, as in Paspalum, and in the ultimate branches or the panicle.
Radiral 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 ot palets (or sometimes onc palet) with the inclo-ed statnens and pistil; or they may be two or more flowered, there being but one pair of glumes to each spikelet, whemer it be 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 ihleum pratensel.
-Stamens -The organs of t e flower which contain the pol len, consisting of the lament and the anthers. Stigma-The extremity of the pistil which receives the pollen.
Whort-A number of leaves or branches starting from one line on the stem.