OBSERVATIONS 
FARINACEOUS PRODUCTS 
OF VARIOUS KINDS 
OF THE 
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BY R. P. BAMBER, M.R.C.S. 
(Read March 18th, 1845.) 
The vegetable kingdom is so abundantly 
supplied with starch-bearing plants, that some 
account of them would form an interesting subject 
of inquiry, but the limits within which I have 
restricted myself will prevent me from doing so, 
and I shall, therefore, confine these observations, 
with a trifling exception, to an investigation into 
the farinaceous properties of one which is now 
so peculiarly adapted, both by habitude and culti- 
vation to this country, that it has become one 
of the most useful, and important additions to 
our food. 
