NORTH AMERICA. 
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Obferved growing in a garden in Mobile, two 
large trees of the Juglans pecan, and the Diof- 
corea bulbifera : this laft curious plant bears a large 
kidney fhaped root, one, two or three at the bofom 
of the leaves, feveral feet from the ground, as they 
climb up poles or fupports fet by their roots ; thefe 
roots when boiled or roafted are edeemed a pleafant 
wJiolefome food, and tafte like the ordinary Yam. 
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