JENKS] HABITAT BY STATES 1031 
Missouri. No data through correspondence. 
Montana. Not known (letter of J. W. Blankinship, Bozeman, 
Montana, December 12, 1898). 
NEBRASKA. Grows throughout the state (letter of Charles E. 
Bessey, Lincoln, Nebraska, December 9, 1898). It also occurs in 
swamps in the sand hills near Whitman, Grant county (Dept. of 
Agric., Diy. of Botany, U. S. Nat. Herbarium, vol. m1, p- L87). 
Nevapa. Not known (letter of Marcus E. Jones, Salt Lake City, 
Utah, December 23, 1898). 
New Hamesuire. Found in Androscoggin river (letter of Henry 
C. Jessup, Hanover, New Hamphire, December 13. 1898). 
New Jersey. ‘*Common in most districts,” in lakes and ponds and 
tidal waters, especially in Delaware river (letter of G. Macloskie, 
Princeton, New Jersey, December 15, 1898). A fossil grass with a 
broad leaf was discovered in the Yellow Gravel at Bridgeton, which 
Dr N. L. Britton, of New York City, says perhaps is Zzanda (Trans- 
actions N. Y. Academy of Sciences, November 24, 1884, p. 31; also 
Proceedings Am. Assoc. Ady. Sci., vol. xxx1, 1882, p. 359). 
New Mexico. Not known (letter of E. O. Wooton, Mesilla Park, 
New Mexico, December 22, 1898). 
New York. It was collected in large quantities by the Seneca and 
other Indians in 1870. 
NorrH Caronina. Common in low and submerged districts (let- 
ter of H. V. Wilson, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, February 15, 1899). 
Notes on Grasses and Forage Plants of the Southern States (U. S. 
Dept. of Agric., Div. of Agros., Bull. 1, 1895, p. 34) says it grows 
near Wilmington, New Hanover county; see also Gerald MeCarty in 
Botanical Gazette, vol. x, 1885, p. 385. 
Nortu Daxora. Grows-in Ramsey and Benson counties in Sweet- 
water lake and in Twin lake, where it is very abundant, and also in 
Deyils lake (letter of Melvin A. Brannon, Grand Forks. North 
Dakota, December 10, 1898), Coues (New Light on the Greater 
Northwest, vol. 1, p- 188) says that in 1800 wild rice was plentiful in 
a marais (now Morse’s slough) at Washville, Walsh county. It is 
also quite plentiful in the Dakotas, east of the Mississippi. It is often 
so abundant in Sioux river as to cover the entire bed for long dis- 
tances (Grasses and Forage Plants of the Dakotas, U. S. Dept. of 
Agric., Diy. of Agros., Bull. 6, p. 17). 
Onto. Grows in the state as far south as 40 miles below Columbus, 
and is also reported from Cincinnati in the catalog of Joseph F. 
James (letter of W. E. Kellerman, Columbus, Ohio, May 18, 1899). 
It grows also in the shallow waters of Lake Erie. 
OreGon. Not known (letter of E. R. Lake, Corvallis, Oregon, 
December 30, 1898). 
Pennsyivania. Abundant along Delaware river and its tribu- 
taries, but probably does not extend far inland (letter of John R. 
