GRASS FAMILY. 369 
1. LEER’SIA, Solander. Fatse Rice. 
(Named in honor of sg Daniel Leers; a German Botanist.] 
- Stamens 1-6. Stigmas plamose with branching hairs. 
coven marsh weenie with the culms, parr and flat /eaves retrorsely 
1. L. oryzoi’des, Swartz. Panicle diffusely branched; florets trian- 
drous ; pale conspicuously ciliate on the keel. 
Oryza or Rice-nike Leersta. Cut-grass. False or wild Rice. 
eo perennial, creeping. Culm 3-5 feet high, striate, scabrou minute 
prickles the nodes pubescent. Leaves 6- 121 inches tad, Jance- sauee, acuminate, ‘hos 
retrorsely an sharply scabrous, very rough 
with retrorse prickles in the grooves ; ligule short, ,retuse. Panicle usually sheathed at 
base, much branched ; flex xii08e, the lower ‘ nes esi = ofan Spi 
branches 
Shese-oblong, pedicellate, greenish- wh mpressed, ciliate on the 
eel, the lower one boat-sha aped, ey ele ‘the bes ip a a little g ero eg l-nerved. 
asa mps, and along sluggish r ivulets : throughout the United States. FI. August. Fr. 
pt 
’ considered 
but rather a nuisan farmer should therefore oe it, gg take 
measures (by hina ke) to expel it, or keep it in subj 
2. ORY’ZA, L. Rice. 
eee [The Greek name of Rice,—coined from Eruz, its Arabic name,} 
Spikelets L-flowered, perfect. Glumes 2, al er siguenic’ but cosplay 
sightty concave. Palee 2, compressed-ca nearly equal in 
—the lower one senate ee ae, ate ip a geste awn branched 
pe mens 6. as plumose,— e hairs 
Caryopsis oblong, Psa edly as by the persistent paler. 
- O. satr’va, LZ. Leaves lance-linear, elongated h; panicle raee- 
mose, contracted ; branches slender, rough ; pales yp sabrons 
a ft nal awn. 
Root annual. Culm 2- 5. feet smooth, striate. iaanés 9-18 incon ong 
broadish, rough on the acai = sinoth Tena pecie # striate-nerved, | geo 
: half an in a point 
Pomie ooleens 8 or 9 inches in ae g peri d op Sag erent pales erect. Ou'er Pree SER 
ly scabrous, the inner one awnless. 
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