GRAMINA, the name of the fourth order in Linnæus's Fragments of a Natural Method, consisting of the numerous and natural family of the grasses, viz. agrostis, aira, alopecurus or fox-tail grass, anthoxanthum or vernal grass, arillida arundo or reed, avena or oats, barbata, briza, bromus, cinna, cornucopia or horn of plenty grass, cynoforus, daetylis, clymus, festuca or fescue grass, hordeum or barley, lagurus or hare's-tail grass, lolium or darnel, lygeum or hooded matweed, melica, milium or millet, naudus, oryza or rice, panicum or panic-grass, paspalum, phalaris or canary-grass, phleum, poa, saccharum or sugar-cane, secule or rye, stipa or winged spike-grass, triticum or wheat, uniola or sea-side oats of Carolina, coix or Job's tears, olyra, pharus, tripacum, zea, Indian Turkey wheat or Indian corn, zizania, xigilops or wild fescue-grass, andropogon, apluda, cenchrus, holcus or Indian millet, ischaemum. See BOTANY, p. 458, col. 2. and GRASSES.