Identifier: descriptionofsom00blas (find matches)
Title: A description of some Chinese vegetable food materials and their nutritive and economic value
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Blasdale, Walter Charles, b. 1871
Subjects: Plants, Edible
Publisher: Washington, D.C. Govt. printing off
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ore pronouncedly divergent lobes. The ))lant hasa more stocky habit than the former si)ecies, and the tuber-bearingrunners are much shorter. The statement is made by Parish that ittaria and Ijophotocaipus, 1894,pp. 9,12. U. S. Dept. of Agr., Bui. 68, Office of Expt. Stations. Plate II.
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Drawings of Roots, Seeds, etc. 1, Seed aud young plant of the -horn chestnut nmpa bispinosa); 2, Seed of Ginkgo biloba;3, Tuber of Sagittnria sinensis; 4, Seed and young plant of Nelumbium speciosum; 5, Tuberof Sagittaria latifolia, sprouted; 0. Fruit and seed of the Chinese olive iCanarium album);r, Kernel of Canarium seed; 8, Root of Pueraria thunbergiana. 11 The starch grains of both species vary from orbicuhir to ovate intheir jilane of greatest extent, are occasionally somewhat angled, andseldom exceed 30 // in diameter (PI. Ill, iig. 1). The hilum is somewhateccentric and the striations are pronounced. With polarized light and aselenite plate they exhibit a slight play of colors. The composition of the two sorts of tubers is shown in Table 1. Theonly previous analysis of this vegetable which has been found is rei)ortedby Kellner, and represents a Japanese sample of the tubers producedby S. sagittifolin. This is included in the table for purposes of com-parison. Table 1.—Compos

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