Botany
II--The vegetative organs 5 III--The inflorescence and flower 13 IV--Histology of the vegetative organs 19 V--Classification 43 VI--Panicaceæ 45 VII--Oryzeæ and Zoysieæ 123 VIII--Andropogoneæ 138 IX--Agrostideæ and Chlorideæ 220 X--Festucaceæ and Hordeæ 283 GLOSSARY 311 INDEX 315
The spikelets are usually arranged in pairs at each joint, one sessile and the other stalked. The spikelets may all be similar as in Imperata or they may be different as in Isch...
7. Chapter 7This is a fairly large and important tribe flourishing mostly in the warm regions and the tropics. It is very well represented in South India and fifteen genera are met with.
12. Chapter 12=Festucaceæ= is of minor importance as it is not well represented in the South India. Only about half a dozen genera occur and most of them on the hills. The spikelets are usual...
10. Chapter 10The tribe =Agrostideæ= is a very small one. It is represented in South India only by a few genera. The spikelets are usually 1-flowered and the rachilla is jointed at the base j...
11. Chapter 11intermedius_. (See Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, Volume 26, part I, pages 304 and 305.) This grass differs from _Cynodon dactylon_, Pers. (1) in not having unde...
5. Chapter 5The shoots and roots of grasses conform in their internal structure to the monocotyledonous type. In all grasses numerous threads are found running longitudinally within the ste...
3. Chapter 3Grasses vary very much in their habit. Some grasses grow erect forming tufts and others form cushions with the branches creeping along the ground. (See figs. 5 and 6.) We usuall...
8. Chapter 8=Oryzeæ= is a very small tribe with a few genera, which usually flourish in marshes. The spikelets are in panicles, 1-flowered and the flower is usually perfect. In Oryza there...
4. Chapter 4The flowers of grasses are reduced to their essential organs, the stamens and the pistil. The flowers are aggregated together on distinct shoots constituting the inflorescence o...
2. Chapter 2Grasses occupy wide tracts of land and they are evenly distributed in all parts of the world. They occur in every soil, in all kinds of situations and under all climatic conditi...
6. Chapter 6The family Gramineæ is usually divided into two series taking into consideration the presence or absence of a joint in the pedicel or rachis, the number of flowers in the spikel...
1. Chapter 1II--The vegetative organs 5 III--The inflorescence and flower 13 IV--Histology of the vegetative organs 19 V--Classification 43 VI--Panicaceæ 45 VII--Oryzeæ and Zoysieæ 123 VIII...