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in the husk. There are many varieties of rice, distinguished by color or size of 
the grain, absence or presence of awns, etc., and then there are two classes known 
as “lowland rice” and “upland rice." The latter is cultivated to some extent 
in western Tennessee. Rice straw is used for making paper 
ene asperifolia Michx. Mountain Rice; Large White-grained Mountain 
A "SP TEM 6 to 18 inches high, with very long basal leaves overtopping the stems. 
This grows in rich, open woods, upon hillsides, from New England to Minnesota 
and northward. It is one of the early blooming species, flowering in May and 
ripening its seed in June and July. The leaves remain green throughout the 
winter. 
Oryzopsis canadensis Torr. Small Mountain Rice. 
A 2 perennial, 6 to 15 inches high, with almost Eum ur basal leaves, and 
narrow few-flowered panicle. It is a native of the Northern States, from 
lose to the mountains of Pennsylvania and Vaart to Minnesota, growin 
upon rocky hills and in open woods, 
blooming in May. It is never suffi- 
ciently abundant to form any material => 
part of the natural herbage. 
magad cuspidata. (See Oryzopsis 
membranacea.) 
Oryzopsis melanocarpa Muhl. Black- 
fruited Mountain Rice 
A rather stout, long and broad-leafed 
gra to 3 feet high, with a simple 
advantage in woodland parks 
ryzopsis membranacea Vasey. In- 
dian Millet; Quivering-grass; Bunch- 
ms Wild Millet; Sand-grass. (Fig. 
58.) 
A grass of rather striking appearance, 1 | 
to 2 feet high, widely distributed Fa. 58.—Indian Millet. (Oryzopsis mem- 
branacea.) 
gion from British America southward 
to Texas and New Mexico, eastward to the Missouri, and westward to the Sierras 
of California. It grows in dry, sandy soils, forming bunches of greater or less 
size, and from this habit of growih it has been called, along with a number of 
other grasses,  Bunch-grass." It thrives in soil too dry and sandy for the growth 
of most other grasses, and is much esteemed for grazing in the regions where it 
abounds. In New Mexico this grass is by some deemed superior to grama, on 
account of its large and nutritious or grains, which are used by the 
Indians to some extent for food. 
