SECT. IX.—PLANTS USED TOR CULINARY PURPOSES. Ill

■Roods; hence they are called Truffle-dogs. The French cooks usethem in soups, &e. in the same manner as mushrooms. The truffle ismostly found in beech woods: I have mentioned thi=, because it is verygenerally met with at table, although it is not in cultivation.

478. TURNEPS. Brasska Rapa. —The varieties in use for gardenculture are, the Early Dutch, the Early Stone, and the Mouse-tailTurnep. The culture and uses of the turnep are too well known to re-quire any description.

The country people cut a raw turnep in thin slices, and a lemon inthe same manner: and by placing the slices alternately with sugar-candy between each, the juice of the turnep is extracted, and is usedas a pleasant and good remedy in obstinate coughs, and will be foundto relieve persons thus afflicted, if taken immediately after each fit.Although this is one of the remedies my young medical friends may beled to despise, yet I would, nevertheless, advise them to make use ofit when need occasions.

The yellow turnep is also much esteemed as a vegetable ; but is dry,and very different in taste from any of the common kinds.

Section X.—CULINARY PLANTS NOT INCULTIVATION.

The following section cannot he too closely studied by people in allranks of life. Many of our most delicate vegetables are found grow-ing wild ; and in times of scarcity, and after hard winters, many articlesof this department will be found highly acceptable to all, and the con-dition of the poorer classes would be bettered by a more intimate know-ledge of those plants. In fact, these and the medicinal plants ought tohe known to every one : and in order to facilitate the study of them,I have been thus particular in my description of the different kinds.

479. AO\RIC, OriANCr.. Jgaricw deliciosus. —This agaric wellboiled and seasoned with pepper and salt, has a flavour similar to thatof a roasted muscle. In tbi^ way the French, in general, make use ofit. It is in high perfection about September, and is chiefly to be foundin dry woods.

*80. ALEXANDERS. Smyrnium Olusalrum. —If the poorer people•ere a« are of the value of this plant, which is now quite neglected,E2