NATURAL HISTORY. 



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Table I. — Continued. 



Rice Grass, Cut Grass, False Rice, (^Leersia orpzoides,} 

 grows very common in wet swampy places. Stems from two to 

 three feet high, panicle erect, spreading with rough, slender 

 branches, leaves narrow or long, sheaths exceedingly rough and 

 sharp to the hand, drawn from the end backward. Florets oval 

 and white, spil^elets flat. Flowers in August. Native of the 

 Levant. Name from Leers, a German botanist. 



It is a beautiful grass, said to be useful at the South, wdiere it 

 is cultivated to some extent, and may be cut several times in a 

 season. It is said there to make a valuable hay. Here it is 

 regarded as a weed, and thorough draining will destroy it. The 



