GRAMINA, the name of the fourth order in Linnaeus'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, aristida, arundo or reed, avena or oats, bobartia, briza, bromus, cinna, cornucopiae or horn of plenty grass, cynosurus, dactylis, elymus, festuca or fescue-grass, hordeum or barley, lagurus or hare's-tail
grass, lolium or darnel, lygeum or hooded matweed, melica, milium or millet, nardus, oryza or rice, panicum or panic-grass, paspalum, phalaris or canary-grass, phleum, poa, saccharum or sugar-cane, secale or rye, stipa or winged spike-grass, triticum or wheat, uniola or sea-side oats of Carolina, coix or Job's tears, olyra, pharus, tripsacum, zea, Indian Turkey wheat or Indian corn, zizania, aegilops or wild fescue-grass, andropogon, apiluda, cenechus, holcus or Indian millet, ischaemum. See BOTANY.