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  CAMBRIDGE BIOLOGICAL SERIES.

  GENERAL EDITOR:--ARTHUR E. SHIPLEY, M.A., F.R.S.
  FELLOW AND TUTOR OF CHRIST’s COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

  GRASSES.

  CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE,
  C. F. CLAY, MANAGER.
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  GRASSES

  A HANDBOOK FOR USE IN THE FIELD
  AND LABORATORY.

  BY

  H. MARSHALL WARD, SC.D., F.R.S.

  LATE PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.


  CAMBRIDGE:
  AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
  1908

  _First Edition 1901 Reprinted 1908_




PREFACE.


The following pages have been written in the hope that they may be
used in the field and in the laboratory with specimens of our ordinary
grasses in the hand. Most of the exercises involved demand exact
study by means of a good hand-lens, a mode of investigation far too
much neglected in modern teaching. The book is not intended to be a
complete manual of grasses, but to be an account of our common native
species, so arranged