iiG THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 



longifolia), rock-cress, {Arabis lyrata) , hedge mustard, 

 {Sisymbrium officinale) and pepper-grass, {Lepedium Vir- 

 ginicuui) had found an abiding place. We had now ahnost 

 reached Mt. Patrick, a settlement which from a distance bears 

 a strong resemblance to a Swiss village, and turning home- 

 ward by a different path we found spring beauties, (Claytonia 

 Virginica) and ground ivy {Ncpeta Glcchoma) while in a 

 neighboring woods were butter-weed {Senecio vulgaris) and 

 Jack-in the-pulpit {Arisacma triphyUum). A lonely colum- 

 bine {Aquilcgia Canadensis) and a bare half-dozen wood 

 anemones {Anemone nemorosa) , near which in a very sandy 

 soil grew a few horse-tails ended our list and we, having com- 

 pleted our circle, boarded the steamer, feeling that the trip 

 was worth all the fatigue it had caused us. — Katharine P. 

 Smith, Millersburg, Pcmi. 



Edible Flowers. — The cauliflower and artichoke are by 

 no means the only kinds of flowers that are used as food, 

 though, from an edible point of view. Dr. Johnson was prob- 

 ,ibly right when he said the former was "the finest flower of 

 the garden." Cloves and capers are well known to professors 

 of the culinary art and both consist of flowers, the former be- 

 ing the dried flowers of a pretty myrtaceous plant from the 

 far east while capers come from the shores of the Mediter- 

 ranean and other temperate climes and are made from the 

 partly opened blossoms of a trailing bramble-like shrub. These 

 are all well known edibles but there are many flowers used for 

 eating in other countries that we only admire for their deli- 

 cate beauty. The Chinaman, for instance, has a penchant for 

 pork served with a sauce made from various members of the 

 lily family, the flowers being first dried and powdered, while 

 the ginger family, besides the root produces flowers that are 

 much relished by native tribes in the Himalayas. In various 

 parts of India and also in New Zealand the pollen of certain 

 flowers is made into bread, while the little brown man from 



