SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
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Calopogon. This plant looks like a kind of grass with 
an onion for a root, but it does not taste of onions and is 
much sought after by wild animals and wild people. It 
is found in low or marshy pleaces. 
Hog Peanuts . In the early spring this plant will be 
found to have a large nut or fruit, buried under the leaves 
or quite underground in the dry woods. As summer 
goes by the plant uses up this capital, but on its roots it 
grows a lot of little nuts. These are rich food, but very 
small. The big nut is about an inch long and the little 
ones on the roots are any size up to that of a pea. 
Indian Turnip or lack-in-the-Pulpit. This is well 
known to all our children in the East. The root is the 
most burning, acrid, horrible thing in the woods when raw, 
but after cooking becomes quite pleasant and is very 
nutritious 
Prairie or Indian Turnip , Bread-root or Pomme- 
blanche of the Prairie . This is found on all the prairies 
of the Missouri region. Its root was and is a staple article 
of food with the Indians. The roots are one to three 
inches thick and four to twelve inches long. 
Solmon’s Seal. The two Solomon’s Seals (true and 
false) both produce roots that are long, bumpy store- 
houses of food. 
Crinkle-root. Every school child in the country digs 
out and eats the pleasant peppery crinkle-root. It abounds 
in the rich dry woods. 
MUSHROOMS, FUNGI OR TOADSTOOLS 
We have in America about two thousand different kinds 
of Mushrooms or Toadstools ; they are the same thing. 
Of these, probably half are wholsome and delicious ; but 
about a dozen of them are deadly poison. 
There is no way to tell them, except by knowing each 
kind and the recorded results of experience with each 
