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the same time, this pecuharity makes it possible to grow rice 

 where no other grain will thrive. Enormous quantities are 



Fig. 16. — Map of the world showing, by full black, the probable native 

 homo, and by dotted area, the present range in cultivation, of wheat. 



(Original.) 



Fig. 17. — Maj) .showing, as in Fig. 16, native homo and present range of 

 l)arley. (Original.) 



produced every year in the warm and moist regions of China, 

 India, and the neighboring islands, and in our southern coast 



