Eleusiné

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 292

Eleusiné, a genus of Grasses, of which several species are of importance as cultivated cereals, notably E. corocana and E. indica in India, and E. Tocco in Abyssinia. E. indica is now common in the United States.

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