[2] Leaf-stalks occur in tropical Bamboos.
[3] Tropical Bamboos branch in the upper parts and are woody. Dinochloa and Olyra are climbing grasses.
[4] Except, of course, in cases of virgin ground rapidly occupied by the seedlings.
[5] The most marked exceptions are the lemon-scented grasses (especially Andropogon) of India and Ceylon.
[6] The pale flanking lines seen in many grasses on each side of the mid-rib are the series of motor-cells referred to on p. [25].
[7] They may have short microscopic asperities, but there are no distinct long hairs.
[8] Very like a Poa when opened out, but the leaves are scabrid at the sheaths.
[9] Strictly speaking a spike is an axis bearing sessile flowers—not sessile spikelets: in Grasses, however, the conventional abbreviated term is sanctioned by long usage. The same applies to the panicle, &c.