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| Material Type: | Book |
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| Monographic Author(s): | Chase, Agnes; Clark, Lynn G.; Pohl, Richard W. |
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| Monograph Title: | Agnes Chase's First Book of Grasses: The Structure of Grasses Explained for Beginners, 1996. |
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| Volume Editors: | Dutro, Nancy P. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press |
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| Edition: | Fourth |
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| # of Pages: | 149 |
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| Collation: | xxii, 127 pp. |
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| Related Web URL: | https://books.google.com/books?id=66FfBgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover
Last checked: 12/16/2016
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Spikelets; Morphology
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| Abstract/Contents: | Includes: List of Illustrations; Preface to the Fourth Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Introduction; The Basic Morphology of Grasses; Modifications of the Spikelet; Pedicellate Spikelets of Few to Many Florets; Sessile Spikelets in Two-Sided Spikes; Pedicellate Spikelets With Large Glumes and Other Modifications; Pedicellate One-Flowered Spikelets; Sessile Spikelets in One-Sided Spikes; Spikelets of Florets Falling in Fascicles; Spikelets With Membranaceous Glumes and Hardened Fertile Florets; Paired Spikelets With Hardened Glumes and Membraneceous Lemmas; Highly Specialized Unisexual Spikelets; The Bamboos and the Rices; How to Study Grasses; Synopsis of Grass Classification; Useful References for the Study of Grasses; Glossary; and Index. |
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Library of Congress
Subject Headings: | Grasses; Grassen; NATURE -- Plants -- General; Gramineae |
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| ISBN: | 1560986565
1588343731 |
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| ISBN-13: | 9781560986560
9781588343734 |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | See also earlier edition, 1922, R=117322. R=117322
See also earlier edition, 1937, R=117323. R=117323
See also earlier edition, 1959, R=175. R=175 |
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| Note: | Includes "Foreword" by Pamela M. Henson, Historian, Institutional History Division, Office of Smithsonian Institution Archives; pp. xiii-xviii
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| Annotation from Turfgrass History and Literature: Lawns, Sports, and Golf, by James B Beard, Harriet J. Beard and James C Beard: | "An update of the classic book delineating a basic method for teaching the identification of grasses via the structures of the inflorescence. Lessons 1 and 2 have been combined, and a lesson on bamboos has been added. Some illustrations have been added." p. 192 |
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| Beard Section Heading: | Bibliography of books/monographs on turfgrass culture |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Chase, Agnes. 1996. Agnes Chase's First Book of Grasses: The Structure of Grasses Explained for Beginners. Dutro, Nancy P. (ed.) Fourth. ed. xxii, 127 pp. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. |
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