Handbook of Grasses

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Excerpt from Handbook of Grasses: Treating of Their Structure, Classification, Geographical Distribution and Uses, Also Describing the British Species and Their Habitats Grasses are in three respects a remarkable family: they possess many structural peculiarities which sharply define them from all other kinds of plants, they are so abundant and widely diffused as to constitute the dominant feature of the landscape, not only in our own, but in most other countries, and lastly, no other Order can at all compare with the Gramineæ in the variety and magnitude of their uses. Yet the study of grasses, so far from being popular, is shunned by many botanists in the belief that it is beset with unusual difficulties, farmers and graziers, to whom the cereal and forage grasses are all in all, have rarely a scientific acquaintance with them, while those observers of Nature, not particularly interested in either botany or agriculture, are hardly able to recognize two or three among the many species which everywhere abound. This little handbook is an endeavour to popularize the study of grasses, the peculiarities of the structure of grasses, and the terms employed in describing these plants, are carefully explained, the chapter descriptive of the British species and their habitats is arranged with especial regard to convenience in field-work, and some definite information is given regarding the geographical distribution of grasses and their vast economic importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.