Various Grasses. 



CHAPTER I. 



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 

 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 

 was so. And the earth brought forth grass, 

 and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree 



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