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EDIBLE PLAxNTS 385are covered with down, and before theleaves haveuncurled, are tender, and when boiled like asparagusare delicious.The rootstocks of ferns are starchy, and after beingbaked resemble the dough of wheat; their flavoris not very pleasant, but they are by no means to bedespised by a hungry man.Fetticus. Corn Salad. Valerianella Locusta.Waste places. N. Y. to Va. and La. Naturalized.Apr.-July.Cultivated for salad and as a pot-herb. TheyOung leaves are very tender.Flag, Cat-tail. Typha latifolia. Marshes.Throughout North America except in extremenorth. June-July.The flowering ends are very tender in the spring,and are eaten raw, or when boiled in water makea good soup. The root is eaten as a salad. "TheCossacks of the Don peel oi¥ the outer cuticle of thestalk and eat raw the tender white part of the stemextending about 18 inches from the root. It has asomewhat insipid, but pleasant and cooling taste.'*Garlic, Wild or Meadow. Allium Canadense.Moist meadows and thickets. Me. to Minn., southto Fla., La., Ark. May-June.A good substitute for garlic. "The top bulbsare superior to the common onion for pickling."Ginseng, Dwarf. Ground-nut. Panax trifolium{Aralia trifolia). Moist woods and thickets.Nova Scotia to Ga., west to Minn., Iowa, 111.Apr.-June.The tubers are edible and pungent.Honewort. Deringa Cariadensis (CryptotaeniaC). Woods. New Brunsw. to Minn., south toGa. and Texas. June-July.In the spring this is a wholesome green, used insoups, etc., like chervil.Hop. Cannabis sativa. Waste places. NewBrunsw. to Minn., south 'to N. C, Tenn., Kansas.Naturalized. July-Sep.Used for yeast. "In Belgium the young shoots