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and ftrong blade, which eared, but that the ears never ^21?:. 

 yielded flour. 



This fhort account of the vegetable productions reaches 

 to fuch parts of the country only as fell within our notice. 

 In the neighbourhood of the Kamrfchatka River, where (as 

 hab been obferved, both the foil and climate is bv much the 

 beft in the whole pcninfula, garden culture is attended to, 

 and probably with great fuccefs as appears from our having 

 received at the fame time, with the fecond drove of cattle 

 from Verchnei, a prefent of cucumbers, of very large fine 

 turnips, celery, and fome other garden-fluff, of which I do 

 not recollect the kinds. 



There are two plants, which, from the great ufe made of 

 them, merit a particular mention and description. The firft 

 is called by tbe natives tbe farana ; and by botanifts, Lilium 

 Kamtjkatieiife fiore atro rubente *. The Mem is about the thick- 

 nefs of that of the tulip, and grows to the height of five 

 inches, is of a purple colour toward the bottom, and green 

 higher up, and hath, growing from it, two tier or leaves of 

 an oval figure, the lower confining of three leaves, the up- 

 permolt of four, in the form of a crofs : from the top of the 

 ilalk giows a fingle flower, of an exceedingly dark red colour, 

 in fhape refembling the flower of the narcifTus, only much 

 fmaller : from the centre of the flower* rites a flyle of a tri- 

 angular form, and obtufe at the end, which is furrounded 

 by fix white ftami a, whole extremities are yellow. The root 

 is of the bulbous kind, and refembles, in fhape, that of 

 garlic, being much of the fame fize, but rounder, and hav- 

 ing, like that, four or five cloves hanging together. The 



* Gmelin, p. 41. Steller enumerates five different fpecies of this plant, 



plant 



