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The Polygonum Biftorta, Snake-weed, or Fikoum, is eaten freth or dried, and often 
pounded with the Caviar. The Cherophyllum Sylueftre, Wild Chervil, or Cow-weed, 
the Morkavai of the natives, is eaten green in the fpring, or made into four 
krout. The Solidago It/chit/chu, Fl. Sib. ii. 170, is dried and boiled with fith ; 
and the broth from it taftes as if the fleth of the 4rgali or wild fheep had been 
feethed in it. The root of Kotkonnia, a {pecies of Tradefcantia, is eaten either 
frefh, or ufed with the roes of fifh: the berries have an agreable acidity, like an 
unripe apple, but will not keep, therefore they muft be eaten as foon as they 
are gathered. Allium Urfinum, Tcheremcha, our Wild Garlic, is very common, and 
ufeful in medicine as well as food; both Ruffians and natives gather it in great 
quantities for winter fervice: they fteep it in water, then mix it with cabbage, 
onions, and other ingredients, and form out of them a ragout, which they eat 
cold. Itis alfo the principal remedy for the fcurvy. As foon as this plant appears 
above the fnow, they feem to put this dreadful diforder at defiance, and find a cure 
almoft in its worft ftages. The Potentilla fruticofa, Sp. Pl. i. 709, or Shrubby 
Cinquefoil, is very efficacious in the dyfentery, or in frefh wounds. The Dryas 
pentapetala, Sp. Pl. i. 717, or Ichagban, isemployed in fwellings or pains of the limbs. 
That dreadful poifon the Cicuta virofa, Sp. Pl. i. 366, Water Hemlock, the Omeg, is 
applied to ufe, by the bold practitioners of this country, in cafes of pains in the back. 
They fweat the patient profufely, and then rub his back with the plant, avoid- 
ing to touch the loins, which, they fay, would bring on immediate death. 
The trees of ufe are a dwarf fpecies of Pinus Cembra, or Pine with edible 
kernels; it grows in great quantities on both the mountains and plains, covered 
with mofs. It never grows upright, but creeps on the ground, and is therefore 
called by the Ruffians, Slanetz. The natives eat the kernels, with even the cones, 
which brings on a tenefmus ; but the chief ufe of the tree is as a fovereign medi- 
cine in the fcurvy. BerrincG taught the Kamt/chatkans to make a decoéion 
of it: but they have neglected his inftrutions, notwithftanding they faw num- 
bers of his people reftored to health in a fhort time, and fnatched, as it were, from 
the jaws of death *. Even at this time the Ruffian colonifts perifh miferably 
with the diforder, notwithftanding the remedy is before their eyes. 
The Pinus Larix, or Larch-tree, grows only on the river of Kamt/chatka, and 
the ftreams which run intoit. This tree is of the firft ufe in the mechanical 
fervices of the country: with it they build their houfes, their fortifications, and 
boats. They make ufe of the Populus alba, or White Poplar, for the fame pur- 
* Voyage, iii. 332.—Gm. Fi. Sib. i, 181.——Refpecting the trees, confult Voyage, iii, 332. Defe. 
Kamt/chatka, 359, and the preceding catalogue. 
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