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SECT, X.----CULINARY PLANTS NOT IN CULTIVATION. II?

525. SEA-PEAS. Pisurr, maritimum. —These peas have a bitterisii^'sagreeable taste, and are therefore rejected when more pleasant foodU to be git. In the year 1555 there was a great famine in England,"hen the seeds of this plant were used as food, and by which thou-sands of families were preserved.

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526. SKA-WORMWOOD. Artemisia maritima.— Those who tra-r ' : 'l the country in searching after and gathering plants, if they chance

meet with smir or ill-tasted ale, may amend it by putting an infu-s ""i of sea-wormwood into it, whereby it will be more agreeable to thePalate, and less hurtful to the stomach.— Threlkeld. Syu. PL Hibern.

This is an ingredient in the common purl, the usual morning beve-r age of onr hardy labouring men in London.

. ^27. SEA-ORACH, Grass leaved. Alriplex littoralis. —This plantls eaten in the same manner as the Chenopodium.

f o28. SEA-BEET. Beta maritima. —This is a common plant on someour sea-coasts. The leaves are very good boiled, as are also the

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5 29. SILVER-WEED. Potenlilla anserina.— The roots of this planttaste like parsneps, and are frequently eaten in Scotland either roasted0r boiled.

. In the islands of Tiias and Col they are much esteemed, as answer-ln o in some measure the purposes of bread, they having been known

support the inhabitants for months together during a scarcity of

er provisions. They put a yoke on their ploughs, and often tear

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"P their pasture-grounds with a view to get the roots for their use;^o as they abound most in barren and impoverished soils, and in

'^asons when other crops fail, they afford a most seasonable relief tole inhabitants in times of the greatest scarcity. A singular instance'" s of the bounty of Providence to these islands. — Light/bot's Fl,

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s 30. SOLOMON'S-SEAL. Convallaria Pohjgo?ialum.—T:he rootsai ' e made into bread, and the young shoots are eaten boiled.

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*31. SPATLING-POPPY. Cuculalus Behen. — Our kitchen-gar-»s scarcely afford a better-flavoured vegetable than the young ten-''°r shoots of this when boiled. They ought to be gathered when they•* not above two inches long. If the plant was in cultivation, nodoubt but what it would be improved, and would well reward the gar-Cher's trouble: it sends forth a vast quantity of sprouts, which might