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384 CAMPING AND WOODCRAFTCress^ Winter. Scurvy Grass. Barharea prae^cox. Waste places, naturalized. Southern N. Y.,Pa., and southward. Apr.-June,Highly esteemed as a winter salad and pot-h,erb;sometimes cultivated.Crinkle-Root. Two-leaved Toothwort. Dentariadiphylla. Rich woods and meadows. NovaScotia to Minn., south to S. Car. and Ky. May,The rootstocks are crisp and fleshy, with a spicyflavor like watercress. Eaten with salt, like celery.Crowfoot^ Celery-Leaved or Ditch. Ranunculussceleratus. Swamps and wet ditches, NewBrunsw. to Fla., abundant along the coast, and locallywestward to Minn. Apr.-Aug.Porcher cites this as a good example of the destructionof acrid and poisonous juices by heating.The fresh juice is so caustic that it will raise ablister, and two drops taken internally may excitefatal inflammation. Yet the boiled or baked root,he says, is edible. When cleansed, scraped andpounded, and the pulp soaked in a considerablequantity of water, a white sediment is deposited,which, when washed and dried, is a real starch.Cuckoo-Flower. Meadow Bitter-cress. Cardaminepratensis. Wet meadows and swamps. Labradorto northern N. J., west to Minn, and B. C.Apr.-May.Has a pungent savor and is used like water cress;occasionally cultivated as a salad plant.Dandelion. Taraxacum Taraxacum {T. Officinale).Fields and waste places everywhere; naturalized.Jan.-Dec.Common pot-herb ; also blanched for salad. Inboiling,change the water two or three times.DocK^ Curled. Rumex Crispus. Fields andwaste places, everywhere; naturalized. June-Aug.The young leaves make good pot-herbs. Theplant produces an abundance of seeds, which Indiansgrind into flnur for bread or mush.Ffrns. Many species.The young stems of ferns, gathered before they