580 General Notes. [July, 
Wi11p Rice In Europe.—The Zizania aquatica, or wild rice, 
grows very extensively in many parts of the United States, and 
being a wholesome food-plant, has been, and is still one of the most 
important food articles of the Indians of the Mississippi plains. 
he Menomonees are named after it and were formerly called by 
the French “ Folles Avoines.” 
Norse Mytnotocy.—The traveler in Switzerland passing from 
one village to another finds himself ever and anon at the foot of 
a glacier, where he beholds in the weird cathedral outlines the 
crystallized remains of the soft and plastic snow,—in its high 
: r or 
—— Edda (poetry) and the Younger or Snorre’s Edda (prose). 
