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article is so well known and generally used that it is found conveniént 
va, 
: see sie ; 
n the trade to distinguish our cultivated rice, Oryza sativa, as “white 
min Oo 
ed by the whites. I Hae heard the plant called “oats;” it is al- 
sir ild ri i ‘rice.’ 
ate aquatica is specially luxuriant in still or slow waters with rich 
y bottoms, and grows more sparsely or not at all in grounds 
om I can 
bi ds living about Lake Winni- 
igoshish, Lake Cass, and Lake Bemidji. They generally cultivate 
ild rice which 
Winnibigoshish - the inhabitants had “gone ricing.’’ I freq 
anoes en route, whose destination was some rice-fiel i 
h acrotch at the end, something like a 
f cloth spread to receive them. e per- 
e not loose enough to 
d then they soon fall 
With the reeds (Phragmites communis or P. pATas : 
Be aquatic growths, and in some places entirely supplanting them. 
