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a more yellowish-green color while grow- 
ing. It can be grown over the widest 
latitude of any grain. The awns are 
barbed and poison persons of a delicate 
skin. It has two-, four- and six-rowed 
varieties. 
Buckwheat is a dicotyledonous plant; 
flowers white, fruit a triangular seed used 
much for poultry and for buckwheat flour. 
Flax is grown for both fiber and seed. 
The fiber comes from the stalks and is 
made into linens. The seed is used for 
poultices (flaxseed poultices), and is 
pressed to obtain linseed oil — the oil of 
paint. 
Indian Corn is taller than the other 
grains. Flowers monoecious naked ovules 
enclosed in a husk. Of great value as a 
food for cattle. Much used as human 
food, as cornstarch and hominy. There 
are many varieties. It likes hot weather 
to grow. 
