Various Grasses. 
CHAPTEH E:T. 
GRASSES—THEIR PECULIAR FORM AND APPEARANCE — MAN- 
NER OF GROWTH—ADAPTATION TO THEIR USES—WHEAT— 
BARLEY—MAIZE—OATS—RICE—PAPYRUS—PAMPA GRASS. 
HE first visible objects that were 
i created in the beginning, after the 
waters were gathered together, and 
the dry land had appeared, were 
grasses. 
“And God said, Let the earth 
bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and 
‘the fruit-tree yielding fruit after his kind, 
whose seed is in itself upon the earth; and it 
#' wasso. And the earth brought forth grass, 
and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree 
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