. Common edible and useful plants of the West. Plants, Edible -- West (U. S. ); Botany, Economic; Botany -- West (U. S. ). properties., Also useful in nervous disorders, intestinal colic, and as an insecticide (said to drive away fleas and lice). The small limbs are used today on chicken roosts as a louse preventitive. The leaves are good flavor addi- tives to stews, roasts, etc. Hung up with garlic to dry, they prevent molding. Str. Wd. Oak Calif. Str. Wd. Oak Calif. T-12. BUCKEYE, CALIFORNIA Aesculus cali- fornica; Buckeye Fam. 12'-25'high tree, with 5 finger-like, light green leaflets to ea
. Common edible and useful plants of the West. Plants, Edible -- West (U. S. ); Botany, Economic; Botany -- West (U. S. ). properties., Also useful in nervous disorders, intestinal colic, and as an insecticide (said to drive away fleas and lice). The small limbs are used today on chicken roosts as a louse preventitive. The leaves are good flavor addi- tives to stews, roasts, etc. Hung up with garlic to dry, they prevent molding. Str. Wd. Oak Calif. Str. Wd. Oak Calif. T-12. BUCKEYE, CALIFORNIA Aesculus cali- fornica; Buckeye Fam. 12'-25'high tree, with 5 finger-like, light green leaflets to each leaf; beautiful white flowers in candle-stick- like spikes, turning into round, brown balls in the fruit; leaves turn bronze in August. Grows in California up to 3000' altitude. While the flowers are bad for bees, and the leaves eaten by cows produce poor-flavored milk, the tree is useful otherwise. Unripe seeds were crushed and scattered into streams to stupifythe fish. Ripe seeds can be crushed and leached, after roasting which takes out most of the poison. Water must be poured over the ground meal at least ten times, but the best leaching is done by letting water in a small stream run over the meal for ten days. The meal is then cooked as a pudding. Leaves were steeped to make a tea as a remedy for congestion of the lungs and varicose veins. Seeds were buried in swampy, cold ground during the winter to free them of bitter quality, and eaten in the spring boiled. The wood was used for fire-making. T-13. CALIFORNIA WAL- NUT, Juglans californica. Wal- nut Fam. 15'-35' high tree or <^^:' ' shrub; dark bark; 9-17 leaflets. The brown nuts are NUT. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sweet, Muriel. Healdsburg, Calif. : Naturegraph Co.
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