a tufted reed-like plant that grows in the marshes; it has long thick roots about four inches thick
which lies under the surface of the water with smaller roots that sink down to the mud with stems 15-16
feet long with a single floral spike. Each part of the rence is used for something. Some parts being
edible while others can be used for carving, caulking, making paper, or a host of other things.
'A kind of paper is made from rence. The plant itself has a long, thick root, about four inches think,
which lies horizonally under the surface of the water; small roots sink downward into the mud from the
main root, and several "stems," as many as a dozen, rise from it, often of a length of fifteen to sixteen
feet from the root; it has an excrescent, usually single floral spike.'
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