JENKS] FOREIGN HABITAT 10387 
ago. He said that Lake Monontoye ‘abounds with excellent fish and 
wild fowl; and oats, rice, and cranberries grow spontaneously in the 
swamps.” ! Of Red lake (Misqui Sakiegan) Long said, ** Fish is 
caught here in great abundance, and wild rice grows in very great 
plenty in the swamps.”* In speaking of Weed lake (Lake Scha- 
beechevan) he further says, ‘‘ The swamps are full of wild rice and 
eranberries.”® In Ontario wild rice grows in immense beds along 
the shore of Lake Ontario, being very abundant in Quinto bay. It 
grows also along Lake Erie, and along the shore of Lake Huron, 
especially on the shore of Georgian bay.* It is plentiful also in that 
triancular section of Ontario roughly bounded by lakes Huron, Erie, 
and Ontario, and Ottawa river. Special reference has been made to 
it in the region of Lake Simcoe and Rice lake between Quinto bay 
and Georgian bay.’ 
Wild rice is reported as growing in New Brunswick and Newfound- 
land.’ The seed has also been planted in England, where Sir Joseph 
Banks introduced it from Canada, in 1790. In 1819 it was still grow- 
ing at his villa, Spring Grove.’ It was also planted at Lincolnshire, 
with the intention of popularizing it as a food for the poor, but it 
.failed.s The plant is said to be found in Jamaica, and it is further 
reported from the eastern part of Siberia® and from eastern Russia, 
where it is called Zizanda latifolia.” These last two references prob- 
ably refer to the same country. In Japan the plant is very common, 
extending from the island of Yezo, in the north, to Shikoku and 
Kiushiu, in the south, its total habitat thus reaching from 31° to 41° 
north latitude. It also thrives in eastern China and on the island of 
Formosa.'! So far as is known the plant is nowhere reported as native 
in Europe, Africa, Australia, or South America. 

1 Long, Voyages, p. 76. 
2Tbid., p. 81. 
3Tbid., p. 108. 
4 Kohl, Trayels, vol. 11, p.46,et seq. See also Canniff, History of the Settlement of Upper Canada, pp. 
587-588; Newberry, Food and Fiber Plants of the North American Indians, Popular Science Monthly, 
vol, XXX, p. 40. 
5 Kohl, op. cit., vol. 1, p.46,et seq. See also Flint, History and Geography, vol. 11, p. 134; Copway, Life 
of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh, p. 65. 
6Mac Kay, Letter, Halifax, May 1, 1899. 
7 Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Science, and Literature, yol. Xx XIX. 
8Smith, Dictionary of Economic Plants, p. 83. 
‘Vasey, The Agricultural grasses of the United States, Dept. of Agriculture, Bot. Div., Spec. Bull. 
1889, p. 47. 
l0Bentham, Notes on Graminee, pp. 14-134, in Jour. Linn. Soe., vol. x1x, Botany, 1882, p. 54. 
MlLetter of J. Matsumura, Tokyo, Japan, December 16, 1898. 
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