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Biana and Texas. The sugar production in Louisiana in 1889 was 292,124,050 

 pounds. Tbf world's production of cane sugar was then aliout 3,000,000 tons, 

 more than one-third of which was produced by the West Indies. Molasses is 

 a product of sugar cane (the uncrystallizable sugar), and rum is made from 

 molasses. Refuse cane, from which the juice has been expressed, yields a 

 strong liber, and in parts of India is used for torches, etc. 



No. 216. Savastana odorata (Linn.) Scribu. Yanilla-grass. (Fig. 78.) 



A rather slender, sweet-scented perennial, 1 to 2 feet high, with short culm leaves 



and brownish i)anicles. Moist meadows and mountains of the Northeastern States, 



extending we.stwai"d to Oregon. This grass, remarkable for its fragrance, has 



long, creeping rhizomes, from which spring the lloweriug culms and numerous 



Fig. 78. — A'jinillagrass {Suva- 

 xtana odorata). 



Fig. 79. — Cord-grass 

 (Spartina cyncsu- 

 roides) . 



Fi<i. 80. — Fox-.irra.s8 

 imparlina iiatens). 



long-leafed sterile or flowerless shoots. These long leaves are woven into small 

 mats and boxes by the Indians, and liiid a ready market because of the sweet 

 odor, whicli tiiey retain for a long time. This odor le.scmblcs that of sweet 

 vernal grass, but is more powerful, especially when this grass is dry. In some 

 I'uropean countries it is believed to have a tendency to induce" 8h>ep, and 

 bunches of it are hung over beds fr)r this purpose. It makes a good turf, but is 

 of little value for forage. In the Northwest Vanilla-grass is generally called 

 Sweet-grass. 



No. 217. Secale cereale Linn. Rye. 



An annual. I to 6 feet high, with liat leaves and a terminal, somewhat liattened, 

 bearded spike 1 to (i inciies long. The rye cjop of tiie I'liited States in 1805 

 was 27,210,070 bushels, nearly half of which was produced in the States of 



