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the Hawaiians, alone make poi, other people using the 
like yams or potatoes. It is said that the corm of the com 
mon Jack-in-the-pulpit of New England woods may 
treated as kalo, even to the eating. 
Pandanus verus, Vaquois, Screw-pine, Lauhala. 1 
pandanus, with its aerial roots and terminal tufts of lo 
graceful leaves, is known by many pictures, but few M 
eaten the fruit. This much resembles a pine in shape @ 
size, and is hard and useless until fully ripe, when the 
surrounding the nuts is mashed into a paste and 
Many of the atolls in the Pacific produce no other 
except the omnipresent cocoa-nut. The taste is 
insipid, and the odor disagreeable. The flower is fleshy 
fragrant, and the native doctors in India use it as a 
love-potion. It is certainly an emetic to some consti 
The aerial roots have their ends protected by a loose. 
thimble of cellular integument, which is at once % 
where the root touches the ground. From the peculiar 
position of the leaves they shed water only from the tips! 
down the stem, forming a complete shelter from th 
and supplying water where most needed. — To be c 

THE GOLDSMITH BEETLE, AND ITS gi 
BY REV. SAMUEL LOCKWOOD. 
Amone the Beetles of North America, very fe 
away the palm for beauty from the Cotalpa lanig ; 
popularly known, the Goldsmith Beetle. This 1m5 
no ignoble place in the Coleoptera, being a mem 
family Rutilidæ, or the golden-gleaming ones. 
Madam Cotalpa has long been an acknowte 
among the Rutilians, themselves a distinguished * 
Beetledom. No artist can vie with the gorgeous 

