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LVI.—THE CANADIAN WILD RICE. 
(Zizania aquatica, Linn.) 
W. J. Bran. 
ven, 
So remarkable and useful a plant naturally attracted the reed 
of early travellers. Peter Kalm, he Swede, who travers : 
considerable part of Eastern N orth America between ee a 
751, mentions it several times in his “ Travels” ; we ee? v6 
Carver, who journeyed over part of the same country be eo she 
and 1768, makes some interesting and quaint observations about 1t, 
. 
He says that it is i 
‘se the ‘iinet svatanie of all the spontaneous Sewer Sean 
country. Exclusive of its utility as a supp 2 om nei pei 
. ry 2 b J fs a e 
American Indians is said to be highly esteem Re ocd’ ack ther 
is, indeed, eaten as a “ breakfast* cereal In ‘ : 
: i he Zizania in Bulletin 
n a useful article on t t 
No. ge gad we se - f Agriculture, gt oe & : fost 
available sapaty of wild rice now sells at from two to three : 
di rice,” ; 
ordinary whi 
