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Common northward in sliiillow hikes jind in the herders of slow 

 streams, also found in Siberia and Japan. Qual.ty of grain fully 

 equal to the common rice, but dark in color; more difficult to col- 

 lect, as the grain dro])s, a few kernel.' at a time, as soon as ripe. 

 Gathered by Indians; attractive to water-fowl. At the South it is 

 cut for hay, offering two large crops in one season. 



Vermont, Pri/if/le; Ontario, Fowler; Michigan, Clark 688; 

 Wisconsin, Heal %iS; South Dakota, />iiffci/. 



39. (40). ZIZANIOPSIS Doell. & Aschers. Mart. Fl. Bras. 2: Part 

 2, U (1871). 



Perennial with much thehabit of Zizania. Thepistillate spike- 

 lets terminating the branches of the panicle. Styles united for 

 three-fourths of their length. (Jrain not adherent to the glumes, 

 hard, ovoid, smooth, shining. Seed easily se])arating from the 

 pericarp, with 3 vertical ridges. Tnternodes destitute of transverse 

 partitions. 



¥\Q.'db.—Zizaniopsis miiincea. Pisiillalespikelet. (Richardson.) 



One species with two varieties found in the Southern States and 

 extending to Brazil. 



1. Z. miliacea (Michx.) Doell. I'v: Aschers.; Baill. Hist. PI. 12: 



