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are used instead of pepper. We are told that they were 
probably the cumin, to which our Lord alluded when re¬ 
proving the Pharisees. 
Fu.clisia-flowered Gooseberry. Itibes speciosum. 
Among the wonderful vegetable productions of California 
is this magnificent gooseberry. It grows to the height of five 
feet, and is sometimes covered for six weeks with brilliant 
scarlet flowers, whose long, drooping stamens have caused it 
to receive the appellation of fuchsia-flowered. 
Giant Fennel. Ferula villosa. 
Prometheus is fabled to have brought fire from heaven in a 
stalk of this plant. Its stems grow ten or twelve feet high, 
and contain a pith, which, in the interior of Sicily, is still used 
for tinder. A Persian species of ferula produces the assafcetida 
of medicine. 
Ground Aut, or Eartli IVut. Bunium bulbocastanum. 
This is an umbelliferous plant, with a root resembling a 
chestnut. Another kind of ground nut, the apios tuberosa, 
or glycine apios, is common in America, and very nutritious. 
The Indians made great use of them in their simple diet. 
