Note 83 — PETER KALM’s TRAVELS. (continued 2)
Johann Reinhold Forster translation
The sea-lyme grass83 likewise abounds on the shores. Both it and the preceding plant are called Seigle de mer84 by the French. I have been assured that these plants grow in great plenty in Newfoundland, and on other North-American shores; the places covered with them looking, at a distance, like corn-fields; which might explain the passage in our northern accounts, of the excellent wine land85, which mentions, that they had found whole fields of wheat growing wild.