Smithsonian Report, 1925. — Safford 



Plate 3 



The Virginia Potato or Openauk 



Glycine apios, the Openauk or Penak of the Algonquin Indians. A plant of the Bean family, 

 with edible tubers and pealike seeds, endemic in esistern North America from Florida to 

 the St. Lawrence River. Encountered by Sir Walter Raleigh's second colony on Roanoke 

 Island in 158G. Photographed from a specimen collected by O. M. Freeman in marshy 

 thicket in Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington 



