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Sect. XVII. 2. i» 



ROOTS AND BARKS. 



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hyacinth, I am informed, are equally infipid, and might be ufed 



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article of food ; but 



f crocus, which I boiled and tafted 



had a difao-reeable flavour, and might probably therefore be infalu 



brious. 



Mr. Gmelin in his Hiftory of Siberia afferts, that the roots of the 

 lilium martagon are ufed as food in that country ; and it is probable, 

 that the root of the arum, though it be acrid in its raw ftate, might 

 fupply palatable and falutary nutriment by cookery; as Mr. White 

 afferts in his Hiftory of Selborne, p. 43, that it is fcratched up and 

 eaten by thrufhes in fevere fnowy feafons, and it is known foon to 

 lofe its acrimony even by expofing its dry powder to the air ; we may 

 add, that the root of the afphodelus ramofus is ufed to feed fwine in 

 France, and that good flarch is obtained from the roots of whitqr- 



r 



bryony and of alftromeria li£lai 



Other bulbous roots are propagated by floriils with great attention 



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for the beauty of their flowers, as tulips, hyacinths, lilies, and many 



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others. For an s^ccount of fome of thefe fee Sed. IX. 3. on the 

 growth of bulbs, and Sect. XIX. 3. i. on the produdion of flowers*. 



II. 



Palmated or branching roots. 



I. The bulbous, and tuberous roots already mentioned were either 

 fuch, as were primarily derived from feeds, as the turnip, carrot, 

 parfiiip, radifh, beet, falfafi ; or fuch as were fecondarily derived 



from feeds, but immediately from bulbs or knobs fimilar to them- 



fel 



as 



potatoes, ground artichok 



rch 



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But th 



branching or palmated roots, which are ufed as food, or in med 



but gener 



of annual 

 cyrrhiza ; 



der, rubia tin(5lor 



its of dying, are 

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feldom produced immediately from feeds 



f perennial 



and are hence the produdl 

 as the root of liquorice, 1 



f marfh m.allow, alcea ; of rhubarb, rheum ; and of mad 



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roots of thefe perennial plants {hoot 



only annual 



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