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376 CAMPING AND WOODCRAFTGrass^ Drop-seed^ Sand Drop-seed. Sporoboluscryptandrus. Also Barnyard or CockspurGrass {Panicum Crusgalli).When the seeds, which are gathered in greatquantities by western Indians, are parched, ground,mixed with water or milk and baked or made intomush, they are of good flavor and nutritious. Alsoeaten dry.GrasSj Panic. Panicum, several species.The ripe seeds are collected, like the above, cleanedby winnowing, ground into flour, water added andthe mass is kneaded into hard cakes, which, whendried in the sun are ready for use. Also made intogruel and mush.Grass^ Floating Manna Panicularia fluitans(Glyceria fL).The seeds are of agreeable flavor and highly nutritiousmaterial for soups and gruels.Greenbrier^ Bristly. Stretch-berry. SinilaxBona-nox. Thickets. Mass. and Kansas, south toFla. and Texas. Apr-July.The large, tuberous rootstocks are said to havebeen used by the Indians, who ground them intomeal and made bread or gruel of it.In the South a drink is made from them.Greenbrier^ Long-Stalked. Smilax Pseudo-China. Dry or sandy thickets. Md. to Neb.,south to Fla. and Texas. March-Aug.Bartram says that the Florida Indians preparedfrom this plant "a very agreeable, cooling sort ofjelly, which they call conte [not to be confoundedwith coontie or wild sago] ; this is prepared fromthe root of the China brier (Smilax Pseudo-China). . They chop the roots in pieces which are afterwardswell pounded in a wooden mortar, then beingmixed with clean water, in a tray or trough, theystrain it through baskets. The sediment, whichsettles to the bottom of the second vessel, Is afterwardsdried in the open air, and is then a very finereddish flour or meal. A small quantity of this,mixed with warm water and sweetened with honey,