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VARIOUS FOOD-PLANTS 



Fig. 118. — Carrageen (Chondrus crispus. Carrageen Family, Gigartinacca.) 

 Various forms of the seaweed, about natural size, the form a showing 

 the "fruit" as oval masses embedded in the branches. The whole 

 plant is dark red or purplish when alive. (Luerssen.) 



harmless by cooking. Unless one is well acquainted with the 

 peculiarities by which edible and poisonous sorts may at once 

 be distinguished, it is surely both fooHsh and dangerous to 

 gather wild mushrooms to eat ; nevertheless, such knowledge 

 is not difficult to acquire with the aid of good pictures and 

 careful descriptions, and to those who spend much time in the 

 country the information may be of not a little value. 



On the subject of poisonous plants Ave shall have more 

 to say in a subsequent chapter. The only safe rule is for a 

 person to avoid touching, and on no account to eat, any part of 

 a plant which he does not surely recoqnize and know to he harm- 



