THE GRASSES. 
Botanical Name, Gramina. —Class, Triandria. —Order, 
Digynia. — Flowers, various, frequently forming a pretty¬ 
looking feather; before they are quite ripe, green.— 
Native place, Europe, Asia, Africa and America. 
Sentiment. 
SUBMISSION. 
ORIGIN OF THE SENTIMENT. 
The nations of the west, according to Hero¬ 
dotus, used Grass as a signal of submission, 
or an acknowledgment that they were con¬ 
quered. We see, in our own history, a relic 
of the custom. When William the Conquerer 
landed at Pevensey, one of his followers (per¬ 
haps one of the natives who followed to Nor- 
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