MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 43 
Common name Botanical name 
rweed Desmodium tortuosum 
Buckwheat Fagopyrum esculentum 
Burnet Poterium sp. 
Canadian field peas Pisum sativum var. arvense 
Clover, crimson Trifolium incarnatum 
Corn, broom Andropogon Sorghum 
Corn, field (Mandan) Zea Mays 
Corn, pop Zea everta 
Corn, sweet Zea saccharata 
Cotton Gossypium herbaceum 
Cowpea Vigna sinensis 
Flax Linum usitatissimum 
Furze Ulex europaeus 
Millet Panicum miliaceum 
Oats Avena satwa 
Peanut _ Arachis hypogaea 
Rape, dwarf Essex Brassica Napus 
Rice Oryza sativa 
Rye Secale cereale 
Sainfoin Onobrychis sativa 
Soy beans Glycine Soja 
Spelt wheat Triticum Spelta 
Spurry Spergula arvensis 
Sugar beet Beta vulgaris 
Sugar cane Saccharum officinarum 
Teosinte Euchlaena mexicana 
Timothy Phleum pratense 
Vetch Vicia villosa 
V egetables.— Representative vegetables are grown on sev- 
eral plots, the following list including two little-known but 
desirable plants, udo and dasheen. 
The udo is a hardy perennial producing strong, blanched 
shoots early in the spring, which may be cooked or used as 
a salad, It is readily grown from seed sown In a cold-frame 
in March. Upon reaching 4 inches in height the plants are 
set out in the open ground 3% feet apart. Blanching is 
accomplished by mounding the soil over the tops, placing 
tile, boxes or tubs filled with sand over each plant, through 
which the shoots develop. After the removal of the crop full 
erowth should be permitted, pinching out the flowers as they 
form. The turpentine flavor of the shoots 1s removed by 
boiling them 10 minutes in salt water. 
The dasheen is a vegetable introduced into the United 
States in 1905 from Trinidad. It is closely related to our 
ornamental elephant’s ear and is thoroughly adapted to cul- 
tivation in the warm, moist south Atlantic and Gulf states. 
In Florida, dasheens are planted in March, the tubers being 
placed 2 inches deep and 4 feet apart. The crop matures in 
October, when it may be harvested in a manner similar to 
the potato. Partial maturity has been obtained in the Gar- 
den by starting the tubers in the greenhouses in January, 
