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must not be effected at a period of much wetness. Wide 
sand tracts would be uninhabitable, if it was not for the 
facility to provide human sustenance from this grateful corn. 
It dislikes moist ground. Sandy soil gives the best grain. 
It is a very remai’kable fact, that since ages in some tracts 
of Europe Eye has been .prolifically cultivated from year to 
year without interruption. In this respect Eye stands 
favorably alone among alimentary plants. It furnishes in 
cold countries also the earliest green-fodder, and the return 
is large. When the Eye-grain becomes attacked by Cordy- 
ceps purpurea, Er., or very similar species of fungi, then it 
becomes dangerously unwholesome, but then also a very 
important medicinal substance, namely Ergot, is obtained. 
The biennial Wallachiau variety of Eye can be mown 
or depastured prior to the season of its forming 
grain. In alpine regions Wallachian Eye is sown with 
Pine-seeds, for shelter of the Pine seedlings in the first 
year. 
Sechium edule, Swartz. 
West India. The Chocho or Chayota. The large root of this 
climber can be consumed as a culinary vegetable, while the 
good-sized fruits are also edible. The plant comes in climates 
like ours to perfection. 
Selinum anesorrhizum, P. v. M. 
(^Anesorrliiza Gapensis, Ch. and Schl.) 
South Africa. The root of this biennial herb is edible. A. 
montana, Eckl. and Zeyh., a closely allied plant, yields like- 
wise an edible root, and so it is with a few other species of 
the section Anesorrhiza. 
Sesamum Indicum, L. 
The G-ingili. Southern Asia, extending eastwards to Japan. 
This annual herb is cultivated as far as 42° II.L. The oil, 
fresh expressed from the seeds, is available for table use. 
One of the advantages of the culture of this plant consists 
in its quick return of produce. The soot of the oil is used 
for China-ink. 
