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A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses, by
Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar and C. Tadulinga Mudaliyar This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
Title: A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Author: Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar C. Tadulinga Mudaliyar
Release Date: December 28, 2007 [EBook #24063]
Language: English
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A HANDBOOK OF SOME SOUTH INDIAN GRASSES
BY RAI BAHADUR K. RANGA ACHARIYAR, M.A., L.T., Indian Agricultural Service, Agricultural College, Coimbatore, and Fellow of the Madras University
ASSISTED BY C. TADULINGA MUDALIYAR, F.L.S., Agricultural College, Coimbatore.
MADRAS: PRINTED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT, GOVERNMENT PRESS. 1921
Price, 4 rupees 8 annas
PREFACE
This book is intended to serve as a guide to the study of grasses of the plains of South India. For the past few years I have been receiving grasses for identification, almost every week, from the officers of the Agricultural and Forest Departments and others interested in grasses. The requiremen