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the madia might be grown very successfully in Scotland."* 

 The culture adapted to the turnip would probably in every re- 

 spect suit this plant, and the richness of its seed could not fail 

 to prove nourishing food to poultry and pigs. 



Campanulacece, Harebell order. Campanula rapunculus, 

 the rampion, is used as an esculent vegetable. It is indi- 

 genous. The roots are called ramps, and are used now as a 

 salad, or boiled like asparagus, being sometimes eaten hot with 

 sauce, or cold with vinegar and pepper. It is almost out of 

 use in this country, but is much prized in France and Italy. 

 Probably the roots of all the species of Campanula which have 

 long, thick, white roots might be used with safety. CypJiia 

 glandulifera has farinaceous tubers, which are eaten in Abys- 

 sinia. The tubers of the C. digitata are used by the Hot- 

 tentots. 



Styracacece or Symplocacecc, Storax order. Symplocas 

 Alstonia is sometimes used as tea. 



Vacciniacece, Cranberry order. xy coccus palustris (Vac- 

 cinium oxycoccus) yields the cranberry, a native. Thibaudia, 

 a genus in the shrubby region of the Andes, some species of 

 which are used as food and to make wine. Vaccinium myr- 

 tillus is the bilberry or blaeberry. V. Vitis Idcea, the red 

 whortle-berry or cow-berry, a substitute for the cranberry. 

 V. uliginosum, the black whortle-berry of the Highlands of 

 Scotland. 



Sub-class Corolliflorce. Hypostaminece. Epacridacece, 

 Epacris order. Astroloma humifusum is called the Tasmanian 

 cranberry. Leucopogon Richei is one of the plants called in 

 Australia native currants. 



Epicorollce or Epipetalce. Ebenacece, Ebony order. Dyo- 



* Lindley, 'Vegetable Kingdom,' p. 707. Lawson's 'Agriculturalist's 

 Manual, ' Supplement, p. 383. See also Stephens's ' Book of the Farm, ' vol. 

 ii. pp. 105, 106. 



