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EDIBLE PLANTS 389salt meat, or as spinach; adds a piquant taste toother greens. Largely used for such purposes inEurope.Nightshade^ Black or Garden. Solanumnigrum. Waste places, commonly in cultivated soil.Nova Scotia to Manitoba, south to Fla. and Texas.July-Oct.This plant is reputed to be poisonous, thoughnot to the same degree as its relative from Europe,the Woody Nightshade or Bittersweet {S. Dulcamara).It is, however, used as a pot-herb, likespinach, in some countries, and in China the youngshoots and berries are eaten. Bessey reports thatin the Mississippi Valley the little black berries aremade into pies.Onion^ Wild. Allium, many species. Richwoods, moist meadows and thickets, banks and hillsides.Used like domestic onions.Parsnip^ Cow. Mastei-wort. Heradeum lanatum.Moist ground. Labrador to N. C. and Mo.,Alaska to Cal. June-July."The tender leaf and flower stalks are sweet andvery agreeably aromatic, and are therefore muchsought after [by coast Indians] for green food inspring and early summer, before the flowers haveexpanded. In eating these, the outer skin is rejected."Peppergrass, Wild. Lepidium Virgintcum.Fields and along roadsides. Quebec to Minn.,south to Fla. and Mexico. May-Nov.Like the cultivated peppergrass, this is sometimesused as a winter or early salad, but it is much inferiorto other cresses. The spicy pods are goodseasoning for salads, soups, etc.Pigweed, Rough. Beet-root. Amaranthusretroflexus. Fields and waste places. Throughoutthe continent except extreme north. Naturalized.Aug. -Oct.Related to the beet and spinach, and may be usedfor greens.