1 88 STURTEV ant's NOTES ON EDIBLE PLANTS 



C. obovata Hook, blue-wood, texan logwood. 



Texas. This plant is a shrub of San Antonio, Texas and westward. The small, 

 deep red berry is acidulous, edible and is used in jellies.' 



C. spathulata A. Gray. 



Western Texas. The berries are similar to those of C. obovata." 



Conferva sp. Confervae. 



Green cakes are made of the slimy river confervae in Japan, which, pressed and dried, 

 are used as food. 



Conium maculatum Linn. Umbelliferae. herb bennet. poison hemlock. 



Europe and the Orient. Poison hemlock has become naturalized in northeastern 

 America from Europe. Although poisonous, says Carpenter,' in the south of England, 

 it is comparatively harmless in London and is eaten as a potherb by the peasants of Russia. 



Conopodium denudatum Koch. Umbelliferae. arnut. earth chestnut, jurnut. 



KIPPERNUT. pignut. 



Western Evirope. The small, tuberous roots of this herb, when boiled or roasted, 

 are available for food and are known as earth chestnuts.* In England, says Don,^ the 

 tubers are frequently dug and eaten by children. When boiled, they are very pleasant. 

 The roots, says Johnson,* are edible but are little eaten in England except by children. 



Convolvulus arvensis Linn. Convohulaceae. field bindweed. 



Old World tropics, middle Asia and naturalized in America from Europe. This 

 plant gives its flavor to the liquor called noyeau, imported from Martinique, according 

 to Lindley.^ It reached Philadelphia in 1876 in the packing of exhibits at the Centennial. 



Copaifera coleosperma Benth. Leguminosae. 



Tropical Africa. The aril is used in preparing a nourishing drink.' 



C. hymenaeifolia Moric. 



Cuba. This species is said to be the mosibe of eastern tropical Africa, a tree which 

 yields a red-skinned, fattening, bean-like seed.' 



Corchorus acutangulus Lam. Tiliaceae. 



Cosmopolitan tropics. This plant is the papau ockroe of the Barbados and is eaten 

 by the negroes as a salad and potherb.'" 



' Havard, V. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 509. 1885. 



Ibid. 



Carpenter, W. B. Veg. Phys. Bot. 203. 1850. 



* MueUer, F. Set. Pis. 126. 1891. 



Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 3:291. 1834. 



* Johnson, C. P. Useful Pis. Gt. Brit. 114. 1862. {Bunium flexuosum) 

 ' Lindley, J. Med. Econ. Bot. 209. 1849. (C. dissectus) 



Masters. M. T. Treas. Bot. 2:1282. 1876. 



rrM. Bot. 2:1319. 1876. - 



" De Candolle, A. Geog. Bot. 2:102b. 1855. 



