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  2. Hierochloe odorata - Wikipedia

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    Hierochloe odorata or Anthoxanthum nitens [1] (commonly known as sweet grass, manna grass, Mary's grass or vanilla grass, and as holy grass in the UK, [3] bison grass e.g. by Polish vodka producers [4]) is an aromatic herb native to northern Eurasia and North America. It is considered sacred by many Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United ...

  3. Muhlenbergia sericea - Wikipedia

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    Muhlenbergia sericea, synonym Muhlenbergia filipes, [1] known as gulf hairawn muhly or sweetgrass, is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. It is native to the Southeastern United States (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas).

  4. Purchase, New York - Wikipedia

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    Purchase is a hamlet in the town and village of Harrison, in Westchester County, New York, United States. One myth explains that its name is derived from Harrison's purchase, where John Harrison was to be granted as much land as he could ride in one day. [ 1 ]

  5. Sweet grass - Wikipedia

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    Sweet-grass or mannagrass, any of the many species in the genus Glyceria; Anthoxanthum odoratum, Sweet vernal grass, native to Eurasia; Muhlenbergia sericea, synonym Muhlenbergia filipes, native to the southeastern United States; colloquially for Cannabis, a psychoactive plant; Sheath grass belongs to the genus Coleanthus in the sweet grass family

  6. Glyceria maxima - Wikipedia

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    Glyceria maxima (syn. G. aquatica (L.) Wahlenb.;G. spectabilis Mert. & W.D.J. Koch; Molinia maxima Hartm.;Poa aquatica L.), imfe Nd [1] [2] commonly known as great manna grass, reed mannagrass, reed sweet-grass, [3] and greater sweet-grass [4] is a species of rhizomatous perennial grasses in the mannagrass genus native to Europe and Western Siberia and growing in wet areas such as riverbanks ...

  7. Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens - Wikipedia

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    The sculpture garden is open to the public, and a visitor's booth is in operation during the spring and summer, according to the PepsiCo Web site, although a New York Times article reported that it was open from March to November. When the center is closed, visitors may get a map of the gardens from a security guard at the headquarters entrance.

  8. MapServer - Wikipedia

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    MapServer was originally developed by Steve Lime, then working at the University of Minnesota — so, it was previously referred to as "UMN MapServer", to distinguish it from commercial "map servers"; today it is commonly referred to as just "MapServer", and is maintained by the MapServer Project Steering Committee (PSC).

  9. Phelps and Gorham Purchase - Wikipedia

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    Map of Phelps and Gorham Purchase 1802–1806. The Phelps and Gorham Purchase was the sale, in 1788, of a portion of a large tract of land in western New York State owned by the Seneca nation of the Iroquois Confederacy to a syndicate of land developers led by Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham.