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Asa food, the Saranne, or Lilium Kamt/chatcenfe, is among the principal. Its 
rosts are gathered by the women in Augu/?, dried in the fun, and Jayed up for 
ufe : they are the beft bread of the country ; and after being baked are reduced 
to powder, and ferve inftead of flour in foups and feveral difhes. They are 
fometimes wafhed, and eaten as potatoes ; are extremely nourifhing, and have a 
pleafant bitter tafte. Our navigators boiled and eat them with their meat. The 
natives often parboil, and beat it up with feveral forts of berries, fo as to form of 
it a very agreeable confection. Providentially it is an univerfal plant here, and 
all the grounds bloom with its flower during the feafon*. Another happinefs re- 
marked here is, that while fith are fearce, the Saranné is plentiful; and when 
there is a dearth of this, the rivers pour in their provifions in redoubled profufion. 
It is not to the labors of the females alone that the Kamt/chatkans are indebted 
for thefe roots. The economic Moujfe, p. 134.-A. faves them a great deal of 
trouble. ‘The Saranne forms part of the winter provifions of that little animal ; 
they not only gather them in the proper feafon, and lay them up in their ma- 
gazines, but at times have the inftin@ of bringing them out, in funny weather, to 
dry them, leaft they fhould decay +. The natives fearch for their hoards; but 
with prudent tendernefs leave part for the owners, being unwilling to fuffer fuch 
ufeful caterers to perifh. 
Let me add, that SrELLER enumerates other fpecies of the Lilly genus, which 
I believe are edible. Every fpecies of fruit, except berries, is denied to this un- 
kind climate ; but the inhabitants ufe various forts of them as wholefome fubfti- 
tutes, which they eat frefh, or make into palatable jams, or drefs with their fith, 
either frefh or when preferved for winter ufe: fuch are thofe of the Lonicera Xylo- 
Sieum or Gimoloft, a fort of Honeyfuckle : the Rubus Chamamorus, Morochka, or 
Cloudberries: the Vaccinium Myrtillus, Uliginofum, Vitis Ide@a, and Oxycoccos, or 
Bilberries, Marfh Bilberries, Red Bilberries, and Cranberries: the L£7petrum 
Nigrum, or Heathberries : the Prunus Padus, or Bird Cherry: Crategus Oxyacan- 
tha, or White Thorn with red and with black berries: the Funiperus Communis, 
or Common Juniper: and finally, of thofe of the Sorbus Aucuparia, or Common 
Service. 
Of the Epilobinm Latifolium, Sp. Pl. 494, or Kipri, is brewed a common beve- 
rage ; and, with the affiftance of the Sweet Plant, is made an excellent vinegar : 
the leaves are ufed as a tea, and the pith is mixed with many of the difhes, and 
ferved up green as adefert. When the infufion of it is mixed with the Sweet Herb 
in the diftillation, much more brandy is procured than if water alone is ufed f{. 
® Defc. Kamt/ch. 363. t+ Patias, Nov. Sp. Mur, 230. } Defc. Kamtfch. 368. 
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