. Five important wild-duck foods . OF AGRICULTURE. divergence of the latter. Various forms of leaves are illustrated byfigure 5. The wapato plant sometimes reaches a height of 4 appearance of the flowers and seed balls is much the same as inthe delta duck potato. The tubers of S. latifolia (fig. 6), from six to nine in number perplant, are formed on runners in the same manner as those of the deltaduck potato, but they attain a much larger size. The largest speci-men examined by the writer is 2 inches in its longest diameter and 1inch thick. Including the bud and a short stalk at the b
. Five important wild-duck foods . OF AGRICULTURE. divergence of the latter. Various forms of leaves are illustrated byfigure 5. The wapato plant sometimes reaches a height of 4 appearance of the flowers and seed balls is much the same as inthe delta duck potato. The tubers of S. latifolia (fig. 6), from six to nine in number perplant, are formed on runners in the same manner as those of the deltaduck potato, but they attain a much larger size. The largest speci-men examined by the writer is 2 inches in its longest diameter and 1inch thick. Including the bud and a short stalk at the base, the entiretuber may measure as much as 5 inches in length. The maturetubers of plants from the northwest are more or less flattened, theshape being comparable to that of the ordinary edible crab. Thesmaller tubers are more nearly spherical (varying to ovoid), and thisis the shape of even the largest tubers of eastern plants that the writerhas seen. The sheaths of the tuber being of a darker color than thebody are
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