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[List of scientific names of plants]

* Carex panicea, Linn- On prairies- evidently native.
" limosa Linn.- And thirty seven other species. The carices are found in the wet natural meadows in great abundance and are annually cut by the farmers for hay. They are thus highly important aids in the settlement of a new country, by enabling the [far] early inhabitants to support their teams and stock before an artificial meadow can be prepared. Many of these natural meadows are occasioned by the dams of the beaver, still visible in every part of the Territory.

*Hordeum jubatum- Squirrel-tail grass-There are fifty [other] species of wild grass in Wisconsin besides the seven above named.

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