. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany. Botany; Botany, Economic. MISCELLANEOUS FOOD-PRODUCTS 111. Fig. 117, II.—Bitter Cassava. A, flowering and fruiting branch. B, stam- inate flower, cut vertically. C, pistillate flower, cut vertically. D, fiiiit. E, F, G, seed, viewed from front, back, and side. H, starch grains from the root, much magnified. (Pax, Martins, and Tschirch.) informed, that mushrooms are as nourishing a food as meat. That this is an absurd exaggeration is seen from the fact that a pound of mushrooms contains less than one-sixth as much proteid as a pound of meat. F
. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany. Botany; Botany, Economic. MISCELLANEOUS FOOD-PRODUCTS 111. Fig. 117, II.—Bitter Cassava. A, flowering and fruiting branch. B, stam- inate flower, cut vertically. C, pistillate flower, cut vertically. D, fiiiit. E, F, G, seed, viewed from front, back, and side. H, starch grains from the root, much magnified. (Pax, Martins, and Tschirch.) informed, that mushrooms are as nourishing a food as meat. That this is an absurd exaggeration is seen from the fact that a pound of mushrooms contains less than one-sixth as much proteid as a pound of meat. Furthermore it has been ascer- tained that while tlie proteid of meat is almost entirely diges- tible, scarcely more than half of the proteid in mushrooms is available as nutriment. Still, mushrooms are sufficiently nu- tritious to warrrant our using them much more than we do, especially certain wild forms which abound in our fields and woods, and of which some at least are preferable even to the cultivated species. The reason these wild forms are allowed to go to waste, is chiefly that there grow along with them cer- tain poisonous species so nearly .similar in appearance to the edible sorts as to have led ignorant persons to gather and eat them unwittingh', mth fatal result; for unlike tlie poison in cassava root, that in poisonous mushrooms is not rendered. 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 Sargent, Frederick Leroy, 1863-. New York, H. Holt and Company
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