The Tayé of California, a delineation of which is given by the Padre Venegas, appears to differ but inconsiderably from the _Ovis musimon_ of the Old Continent. The same animal has also been seen in the Stony Mountains near the source of the River of Peace, and differs entirely from the small white and black spotted goat-like animal found on the Missouri and Arkansas. The synonyme of Antilope furcifer, A. tememazama. (Smith,) and Ovis montana is still very uncertain. Footnote 27: p. 11.—“_The culture of farinaceous grasses._” The original habitat of the farinaceous grasses, like that of the domestic animals which have followed man since his earliest migrations, is shrouded in obscurity. Jacob Grimm has ingeniously derived the German name for corn, _Getraide_, from the old German “gitragidi,” “getregede.” “It is as it were the _tame_ fruit (_fruges_, _frumentum_) that has fallen into the hands of man, as we speak of tame animals in opposition to those that are wild.”[FY] “It is a most striking fact that on one half of our planet there should be nations who are wholly unacquainted with the use of milk and of the meal yielded by narrow-eared grasses, (_Hordeaceæ_ and _Avenacecæ_) whilst in the other hemisphere nations may be found in almost every region who cultivate cereals and rear milch cattle. The culture of different cereals is common to both hemispheres; but while in the New Continent we meet with only one species, maize, which is cultivated from 52° north to 46° south lat., we find that in the Old World the fruits of Ceres, (wheat, barley, spelt, and oats,) have been everywhere cultivated from the earliest ages recorded in history. The belief that wheat grew _wild_ in the Leontine plains as well as in other parts of Sicily was common to several ancient nations, and is mentioned as early as Diodorus Siculus.”[FZ] Cereals were also found in the alpine meadow of Enna. Diodorus says expressly, “The inhabitants of the Atlantis were _unacquainted with the fruits of Ceres_, owing to their having separated from the rest of mankind before those fruits were made known to mortals.” Sprengel has collected several interesting facts from which he is led to conjecture that the greater number of our European cereals originally grew wild in Northern Persia and India. He supposes for instance that summer wheat was indigenous in the land of the Musicani, a province of Northern India;[GA] barley, _antiquissimum frumentum_, as Pliny terms it, and which was also the only cereal known to the Guansches of the Canaries, originated, according to Moses of Chorene,[GB] on the banks of the Araxes or Kur in Georgia, and according to Marco Polo in Balascham, in Northern India;[GC] and _Spelt_ originated in Hamadan.