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and it is essential to have the poisonous juice separated by 



grating, washing and cooking before being eaten. From this 



same juice, however, the product known as " Cassareep *' by 



boiling down is obtained. It is largely used in the West lndie9 



for culinary purposes, and in this country for the preparation 



of various table sauces. 



The "Herbert River" or "Queensland Cherry" (Antiderma 

 9 dallaclvyanum, BailL), a shrub or small tree, has an edible 



fruit said to be equal to that of the "Red Currant" (Ribes 

 ruhvum) when made into jelly (K.B. 1895, p. 272). The fruits 

 of Antidesma Bunias, Spr., are used for preserving and the 

 aoid fruits Sof the " Otaheite Gooseberry" (PhyUanthvs dis- 

 lichus, Muell. Arg.), are used for pickling in Java, whore also 



the fruits of Baccaurea racemnsa, Muell. Arg., are eaten. The 



" Emblic Myrobalan M (Phyllanthus Emblica, Linn.), a small 

 tree of India and Burma, and " Rambeh " (Baccaurca dulcis, 

 Muell. Arg.), have edible fruits. The seeds of " Jamaica Cob 

 Nut" or " Hog Nut" (Omphalea triancha, Linn.), a small 



tree of the West Indies, are eaten raw or roasted. 



Urticaceae. 



Humulus Lupulus, Linn. ; Hop. 



A twining perennial plant, native of Europe, Caucasus, 

 Central Asia, &c, and found wild in England; cultivated in 

 Belgium, Bavaria, Eufesia, United States, &c. The female 

 flowering cones ("calkins" or "strobiles") known as "hops" 

 are used in brewing beer. The young shoots, when about 4 to 

 5 in. long, thinned from the plants are used as a vegetable in 

 Belgium and are recommended for a similar use in this 

 country, the thinnings from the hop-fields at the time the 

 plants are starting into growth, are estimated at about TO Lb. 

 per acre (Journ. Bd. Agric, Jan., 1910, p. 581). "Hops" in 

 1913 were imported from United States, Germany, Belgium. 

 Canada, Holland, Russia, Austria-Hungary, France. New 

 Zealand, Australia, and Mexico, to the amount of 293,646 

 centals. In the same year the home production was 286,318 

 centals from 35,676 acres in the counties of Kent, Hants, 

 Hereford, Surrey, Sussex, Worcester, and to the least extent in 

 Gloucestershire, Salop, and Staffordshire. 



2. Numerous references. 



Cannabis sativa, Linn.; Hemp, 



Annual, 4 to 8 ft., native of the temperate parts of Asia, near 

 the Caspian Sea, Persia, &c. ; cultivated in Europe, India, 

 America. Siberia, &c. The seed produced in most of the 

 countries mentioned ahove, where the plant is grown for fibre, 

 is well known for feeding* birds, and the oil extracted by cold 

 pressure is used for cooking, and the oil- cake is an important 

 food for stock. 



Moras alba, Linn.-. "White Mulberrx 



A small deciduous tree, native of Northern and Western Asia, 

 cultivated in Northern India, China, Japan, and Southern 



