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374 CAMPING AND WOODCRAFTAll nuts are more digestible when roasted thanwhen eaten raw.Arrowhead^ Broad-leaved. Swan or SwampPotato. Sagittaria latifolia {S. variabilis). Inshallow water; ditches. Throughout North America,except extreme north, to Mexico. July-Sep.Tuberous roots as large as hens' eggs, were animportant article of food among Indians. Rootsbitter when raw, but rendered sweet and palatableby boiling. Excellent when cooked with meat.Indians gather them by wading and loosening rootswith their feet, when the tubers float up and aregathered. Leaves acrid.Arum, Green Arrow. Peltandra Virginica(P.undulata. Arum Virginiciim) . Swamp or shallowwater. Me. and Ont. to Mich., south to Fla, andLa. May-June.Rootstock used by eastern Indians for food, underthe name of Taw-ho. Roots very large; acridwhen fresh. The method of cooking this root, andthat of the Golden Club, is thus described by CaptainJohn Smith in his Historic of Virginia (1624),p. 87 : "The chiefe root they haue for food is calledTockawhoughe. It groweth like a flagge in Marishes.In one day a Salvage will gather sufficient for aweek.These roots are much of the greatnesse andtaste of Potatoes. They vse to cover a great manyof them with Oke leaues and Feme, and then coverall with earth in the manner of a Cole-pit [charcoalpit] ; over it, on each side, they continue a greatfire 24 houres before they dare eat it. Raw it isno better than poyson, and being roasted, exceptit be tender and the heat abated, or sliced and dryedin the Sunne, mixed with sorrell and meale or suchlike, it will prickle and torment the throat extreamely,and yet in sommer they vse this ordinarilyfor bread."Arum, Water. Wild Calla. Calla paUustris.Cold bogs. Nova Scotia to Minn., south to Va.,Wis., Iowa. May-June."Missen bread is made in Lapland from roots