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Publication Type:
| Professional |
Material Type: | Book |
Monographic Author(s): | Chase, Agnes |
Author Affiliation: | Assistant Agrostologist, United States Department of Agriculture |
Monograph Title: | First Book of Grasses: The Structure of Grasses Explained for Beginners, 1922. |
Publishing Information: | New York, New York: The Macmillan Company |
# of Pages: | 134 |
Collation: | xiii, 121 pp. |
Series: | The Rural Text-Book Series |
Series Editors: | Bailey, L. H. |
Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Turfgrass community; Identification keys; Visual evaluation; Taxonomy; Botany; Grasses; Glumes; Spikelets
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Abstract/Contents: | Includes: Preface; List of Illustrations; Introduction; The Grass Family; The Spikelet and the Inflorescence; Modifications of the Spikelet; Pediceled Spikelets of Few to Many Florets; Sessile Spikelets in Two-Sided Spikes; Pediceled Spikelets With Large Glumes and Other Modifications; Pediceled One-Flowered Spikelets; Sessile Spikelets in One-Sided Spikes; Diversely Specialized Spikelets; Spikelets With Membranaceous Glumes and Hardened Fruits; Paired Spikelets With Hardened Glumes and Thin Lemmas; Highly Specialized Unisexual Spikelets; Diagrammatic Summary of the Primary Characters of the Tribes; General Information for the Beginner; and Index. |
Library of Congress Subject Headings: | Grasses |
ISBN: | 143660317X |
ISBN-13: | 9781436603171 |
Language: | English |
References: | 0 |
See Also: | See also later edition, 1937, R=117323. R=117323
See also later edition, 1959, R=175. R=175
See also later edition, 1996, R=117324. R=117324 |
See Also: | Other items relating to: Turf books online |
Note: | Line drawings Figures |
Annotation from Turfgrass History and Literature: Lawns, Sports, and Golf, by James B Beard, Harriet J. Beard and James C Beard: | "A book delineating a basic method for teaching the identification of grasses via the structures of the inflorescences. It is organized with twelve lessons formatted by genera from the simplest to most complex seed head." p. 189 |
Beard Section Heading: | Bibliography of books/monographs on turfgrass culture |
Quotable quotes | "No attempt is made to write a primer of grasses in words of one syllable nor to produce a work on "how to know the grasses" without mental effort. It can not be done." p. 4 "Of all plants grasses are the most important to man." p. v |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete): Chase, Agnes. 1922. First Book of Grasses: The Structure of Grasses Explained for Beginners. xiii, 121 pp. New York, New York: The Macmillan Company. |
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