- @LUMALS. 31 GRASSES. 
1. 0. sativa Linneus.—(Rice.) Fig. 59. 
_ Leaves linear, long, rough; panicle racemose, rather contracted; pales very 
hairy. ; 
Habitat. Cultivated in all hot countries, in swampy 
laces. 
Quality. Grain nutritious. 
Uses. Employed largely as food ; but from the small propor- 
tion of protein compounds is much less nutritious than 
ordinary cereal grains, 
eos Seraria. Palisot. 
compound cylindrical spike. Spikelets 2-flowered, — 
_ Surrounded by an involucre of bristles. Lower floret 
| sy, consisting of one palea resembling the 
glumes. — oe a 
S. italica Palisot. §. germanica Pal—(GERMAN 
mitLeT. Mona.) ; 60 
__ ee Oryza sativa; a, a spikelet magnified; 6 the awned variety 
