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Minnesota Plant Life. 



It occurs in large quantities, especially in narrows between lakes, 

 in outlets or inlets, but not so commonly in bays or stagnant 

 water. It is not so frequent in lakes without an outlet. The 



FIG. 88. Wild rice in a Minnesota lake. After photograph by Williams. 



grain is longer and thinner than the rice of the orient, but when 

 boiled is quite as agreeable to the taste as the cultivated form. 

 The Indians collect it in September, beating it into their canoes, 



