. The natural history of the farm; a guide to the practical study of the sources of our living in wild nature. Natural history. Fig. i6,6); its charmed product, "calamus ; Drieditis often nibbled by school children, and it is candied by their mothers, especially in New England, and served as a condi- ment. There areanumber of other native "roots" of semi-aquatic plants that were eaten by the aborigines. The biggest' 'root" of all was the rhizome of the spatter-dock—several feet long and often six inches thick, coarse and spongy, and full of starch. The rootstocks
. The natural history of the farm; a guide to the practical study of the sources of our living in wild nature. Natural history. Fig. i6,6); its charmed product, "calamus ; Drieditis often nibbled by school children, and it is candied by their mothers, especially in New England, and served as a condi- ment. There areanumber of other native "roots" of semi-aquatic plants that were eaten by the aborigines. The biggest' 'root" of all was the rhizome of the spatter-dock—several feet long and often six inches thick, coarse and spongy, and full of starch. The rootstocks of the lotus and of several other members of the water-lily fam- ily are edible; also, the sub- terranean offsets of the cat- tail. These were and are fa- vorite foods of the muskrat, too. The red man ate also the rootstocks of the arrow- head and the underground stems of the false Solomon's seal. Then if we count the exotic, cultivated peanut in its pod a root crop, we shall have to count the native hog peanut (Amphicarpcea monoica, Fig. 36), with its more fleshy and root-like subterranean pod, also as one. It is a most interesting plant. It grows as a slender twining vine on low bushes in the edges of thickets. It produces pale blue flowers in racemes along the upper part of the stem, followed by small, beanlike pods. It de- velops also scattered, colorless, self-fertil- zing flowers on short branches at the sur- face of the soU. These are very fertile. They push into the soil and produce there mostly one-seeded, roundish, fleshy pods about half an inch in diameter. These are the hog peanuts. Fig. 35. A portion of a vine of the hog peanut, bearing both flowers and seed Fig. 36. The root and the under- ground "nuts" of the hog 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 Needh
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