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1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados vii. 239 Rice-grass. This Grass grows to about two feet high. Its roots are many and white.

1847 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 20 401 The Rice or Black-seed grass is considered the best for fodder, and grows most luxuriantly in new soils.

1896 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Gardens, Kew) 116 Panicum colonum, L. Rice grass. This annual grass springs up rapidly after rain, and yields a very rich hay.

2008 Small Ruminant Res. 75 219/2 Prior to the start of the experiment, lambs received rice grass hay ad libitum for approximately 21 days.

1818 T. Nuttall Genera N. Amer. Plants I. 43 Rice-grass.

1857 C. Johnson Grasses Great Brit. 4 Leersia oryzoides. Rice Grass... First noticed as a native of Britain in September 1844..at Henfield, Sussex.

1870 Trans. N.Y. State Agric. Soc. 1869 29 222 Leersia oryzoides. This species is variously known as rice grass, cut grass, false rice, white grass, and prickle grass.

1902 Hand-list Herbaceous Plants Royal Bot. Gardens (ed. 2) 659 L[eersia] oryzoides... ‘Rice Grass’.

1848 J. Gould Introd. Birds Austral. 79 In the end of March and the beginning of April they collect in large flocks and live on the seed of the rice-grass, which the natives also collect for food.

1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 93 Leersia hexandra,..‘Rice Grass’. A rough-leaved species, common along the watercourses of Queensland.

1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 94 Microlæna stipoides,..‘Weeping Grass’, ‘Meadow Rice Grass’.

1930 A. J. Ewart Flora of Victoria 137 T[etrarrhena] accuminata R. Br., Pointed Rice Grass. Stems long and slender.

1965 Austral. Encycl. IV. 370 Oryza australiensis (rice-grass) is a perennial rice of the swamps of northern Australia.

1973 J. C. Tothill & J. B. Hacker Grasses S.E. Queensland i. 17 The coastal region provides conditions for numerous fresh~water streams, ponds, bogs, etc... Common grasses of these sites are water couch.., common reed.., swamp rice grass (Leersia hexandra).

2007 Ecos (Nexis) 1 Feb. 8 Microlaena—commonly known as weeping grass, weeping rice grass or meadow rice grass—is indeed a relative of rice, the world's no. 1 human food crop.

1893 Bull. Okla. Exper. Station May 30 Rice Grass..Oryzopsis cuspidata.

1909 J. M. Coulter & A. Nelson New Man. Bot. 50 Oryzopsis... Rice Grass.

1935 A. S. Hitchcock Man. Grasses U.S. 415 Nearly all the species are highly palatable to stock, but are usually not in sufficient abundance to be of importance, except O. hymenoides (Indian ricegrass), which..furnishes much feed.

1968 F. W. Gould Grass Systematics v. 195 Oryzopsis hymenoides (Roem. & Schult.) Ricker, Indian ricegrass.., is an important forage species.

1998 Agric. Res. Jan. 18/1 Two of the most economically important plants in Nevada's Great Basin are Indian ricegrass and the shrub called antelope bitterbrush.

2006 D. R. Piperno Phytoliths vii. 153/2 Past food sources such as rice grass (Oryzopsis hymenoides), maize and sunflowers might be empirically evidenced with phytolith data.

1907 1st Rep. Royal Comm. Coast Erosion 367/2 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 3683) XXXIV. 1 Many years ago a ship from the River Plate is said to have come in with a kind of rice grass. It was quite accidental: it came over in a wheat cargo. It sprang up near Southampton. These little plants, which are estuarine plants from Argentina, gradually spread out over Southampton Water, and the whole of Southampton Water from Carlshot Castle right up to Redbridge is entirely covered with what some people call ‘Sea Rice’ and others ‘Rice Grass’.

1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. 72 During the last half-century a new type of rice-grass appeared in Western Europe, and has been so successful that the Dutch have used it to reclaim land from the sea.

1985 Cambr. Encycl. Life Sci. vii. 178/2 The softest unconsolidated muds..are associated with rapidly growing Spartina (rice-grass or cord-grass) marshes.

2000 Australian (Nexis) 11 Aug. 2 Rice grass (Spartina anglica) was introduced to reclaim mud flats as grazing land, but quickly spread out of control, displacing native flora and fauna.