WILD RICE,
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The following extract from Gilleland's "Ohio and Mississippi Pilot'' may perhaps be interesting to some of our readers. "Among the vegetable productions of the Western Territory, north of Illinois and west of Green Bay, on the Ouisconsn and Fox rivers, the Wild Rice, called Folle avoine by the French, and Menomen by the Indians, claims particu- lar attention. It grows in inexhausted abun- dance, through all parts of the territory, in almost every one of the innumerable lakes, ponds, bays, rivers, and creek. It grows where the water is from four to six feet deep, and where the bottom is not hard or sandy.- It rises above the surface of the water from four to eight feet, and is often so thick as to prevent canoes from passing through it. The stalk is soft like the bulrush, but grows in joints like the reed cane, which it much re- sembles. It is usual for the Indians to force their canoes through it Gust before it ripens) and tie it in large bundle, for the purpose of preventing the wild ducks and geese from breaking it down and destroying it.-- When it is fully ripe they pass through it again, and spreading their blankets in the in side of their canoes, they bend the punches of the wild rice over them, and thresh of the grain with sticks; an operation which requires little time, and is generally performed by the women. After drying it in the sun, they put it into skins for future use. This singular spontaneous grain grows no where south of the Illinois river, nor east of Sandusky bay Every autumn and spring the wild ducks and geese resort to the wild rice lake in focks in- credibly numerous. st

 Professor Bigelow in hisCollection of Plants, has given the following description of thisun- der the name of Canada Rice, ( Zizania aqnafica.) 't iiis i.qv

 This interesting plant grows in deep water at the edges of the ponds and sluggish streams, It resembles at a distance. slender shoots oi Indian corn, but often grows to the height of five or six feet from the bottom. Culm joint ed, as large as the little finger. Leaves broad linear. Panicle a foot or more in length, the lower branches with spreading barren few CTS, the upper with suppressed, erect fertile ones.n The seeds are blackish, smooth, nar, row, cylindrical, about three quarters of ar

 inch long, decidious; within they are. whits

 and farinaceous. The Zizania, will probably

 at some day be an object of cultivation, since