. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . Fig. IIG, III.—Prickly Sago Palm. Ripe fruit and roniains of a .staminatc branch of the flower-duster. (LeMaout and Decaisne.)—Three-yeais are required to ripen this strangely armored 117, I.—Bitter Cassava {Mnnihot utilissima. Spurge Family, Euphor- hiaceoE). A shrub 2-3 ni. tall, producing swollen roots weighing 10 kg. or more; flowers staminatc and pistillate on the same plant; fpuit dry, breaking apart. (Pax.) MISCELLANEOLS FOOD-PRODUCTS 111. Fig. 117, II.—Bitter Cassava. A, flowering and fruiting branch. B, stam-inate flower,
. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . Fig. IIG, III.—Prickly Sago Palm. Ripe fruit and roniains of a .staminatc branch of the flower-duster. (LeMaout and Decaisne.)—Three-yeais are required to ripen this strangely armored 117, I.—Bitter Cassava {Mnnihot utilissima. Spurge Family, Euphor- hiaceoE). A shrub 2-3 ni. tall, producing swollen roots weighing 10 kg. or more; flowers staminatc and pistillate on the same plant; fpuit dry, breaking apart. (Pax.) MISCELLANEOLS FOOD-PRODUCTS 111. Fig. 117, II.—Bitter Cassava. A, flowering and fruiting branch. B, stam-inate flower, cut vertically. C, pistillate flower, cut , fruit. E, F, G, seed, viewed from front, back, and side. H, starchgrains from the root, much magnified. (Pax, Martins, and Tschirch.) informed, that mushrooms are; as nourishing a food as this is an absurd exaggeration is seen from the fact thata pound of mushrooms contains less than one-sixth as muchproteid as a pound of meat. Furthermore it has been ascer-tained that while the proteid of meat is almost entirely diges-tible, scarcely more than half of the proteid in mushrooms isavailable as nutriment. Still, mushrooms are sufficientl}^ nu-tritious to warrrant our using them much more than we do,especially certain wild forms which abound in our fields andwoods, and of which some at least are preferable even to thecultivated species. The reason these wild forms are allowedto go to waste, is chiefly that there grow along with them cer-
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