Grass family
Gramineae
Bry’za. A group of slender grasses, usually called quaking grass.
Description
Leaf blades flat, the spikelets suggesting small, flattened hops, often nodding on threadlike stalks.
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Grass family
Gramineae
A-gros’tis. Bent Grass . A large genus of widely distributed annual and perennial grasses, a few of which are much used in hay and lawn seed.
Description
Leaves narrow. Flowers in small spikelets that are borne in open, loose panicles.
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Grass family
Graminae
Ko’icks. A small genus of Indo-Malayan grasses, the species below grown here for ornament; but in its native region, its beadlike seeds are used to make rosaries.
Description
Stem jointed. Leaves flat. Flower cluster terminal, the male clusters at the end, the female below, the latter containing a white beadlike structure and the edible kernel.
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Grass family
Gramineae
Pol-li-po’gon. About 10 species of grasses with soft silky inflorescences.
Description
Leaf blades flat and narrow. Flowers in spikelike panicles.
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Grass family
Gramineae
Lag-you’rus. A single species of annual grass of the Mediterranean region, grown for dried bouquets. Related to Agrostis .
Description
An erect grass, its narrow, grasslike leaves softly hairy. The flowering cluster in an oblongish head.
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Grass family
Gramineae
Fal’ar-ris. About 15 species of ornamental and seed-yielding grasses in the north temperate zone, cultivated for the variegated foliage, the species below a source of birdseed.
Description
Leaf blades flat and narrow. Flower cluster terminal, usually a narrow spike or panicle, its spikelets flattened but not bristled.
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Grass family
Gramineae
La-mark’i-a. A single species of annual grass of the Mediterranean region, commonly grown for its handsome spikelets. Related to Briza and Poa .
Description
A tufted grass, with numerous flat, grasslike leaves. Spikelets crowded in dense, drooping clusters.
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Grass family
Gramineae
See-tair’i-a. Chiefly agricultural, warm-country grasses, comprising about 125 species, the one below chiefly a forage or fodder grass.
Description
Leaf blades flat and narrow. Flowers in a large, spikelike panicle, the spikelets having beneath them bristles that persist after the spikelet has fallen. Fruit an edible grain in S. italica .
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Grass family
Gramineae
Pen-i-see’tum. A genus of 80 species of chiefly tropical grasses, some ornamental.
Description
Leaf blades flat and narrow, sometimes colored. Flowers in a spikelike panicle, the spikelets having beneath them bristles, sometimes plumed, often longer than the spikelets.
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Grass family
Gramineae
Pan’i-kum. Panic Grass . A large genus of over 500 species of grasses found in all parts of the world, but mostly in the tropics.
Description
Creeping or erect, varying considerably in height and leaf size. Leaves usually flat. Flowers usually in light feathery clusters, in which the upper flowers are fertile and the lower ones rarely so.
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Grass family
Gramineae
Trit’i-kum. Wheat . About 30 species of annual or biennial grasses, allied to Secale (Rye) and Agropyron, which includes Quackgrass. The species below cultivated since antiquity. W. Asia. Next to Rice, the most important cereal grass in the world.
Description
Leaf blades flat and narrow. Flowers in relatively stout spikelike panicle, the spikelets crowded, awned in some varieties, but without awn in others. Fruit, the Wheat grain, grooved.
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Grass family
Gramineae
Hor’dee-um. About 25 species of grasses widely distributed in temperate regions, including Barley.
Description
Leaves flat, grasslike, terminal. Flower clusters more or less cylindrical. Spikes mostly dense, with conspicuous awns, the individual spikelets 1-flowered, 3 of the spikelets at each node of the jointed stalk. Due to the infertility of some spikes, the resulting cluster may be 2-rowed or 4-rowed.
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