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Title: A description of some Chinese vegetable food materials and their nutritive and economic value
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Blasdale, Walter Charles, 1871- United States. Office of Experiment Stations
Subjects: Vegetables, Chinese Vegetables China Botany China
Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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use apex, and more pronouncedly divergent lobes. The plant hasa more stocky habit than the former species, and the tuber-bearingrunners are much shorter. The statement is made by Parish that 8. sinensis has been introducedby the Chinese into southern California, and by Brandegee-that it iscommon along the Sacramento Elver. Both these statements, however,are disputed by Smith,= and apparently on sufficient grounds. The tubers of 8. sinensis appear in the markets in December or Jan-uary, in some seasions in large quantities, and as far as could be learnedare always imported from Canton. Tbey are symmetrical and nearlyspherical in form, but in size, color, consistency, and other characteristicsclosely resemble those of the American species and the same Chinesecharacter and name are used for them. Zoe, 1 (1890),p.l22.^Zoe, 4 (1893), p. 217. Revision of North Americaa Specie;? of Sagittaria and Lopliotocarpus, 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 ami young: plant of tlu -Inn-u rlicstnul. ■ iTni/.n l.ispinosa): 2, Seed of Giukyo biloba;.. ruljerof Sdijiltarlit .■^nirjinis; 4, Seed and youiiK plant ot NeluDibiuiii speciosum; .5, Tuberot s„(i,tta,;,i Intifnl,,,. .picuted; (i. Fruit and seed ..f the Chinese olive yCa,mriv.m album);Kernel of Canariurn seed: S. Root of Pucniria thuiibi-i rjiana. 11 The starch grains of both species vary Iroiii orbicular to ovate intheir plane of greatest extent, are occasionally somewhat angled, andseldom exceed 30 // in diameter (PI. Ill, fig. 1). The hiluni is somewhateccentric and the striations are pronounced. With polarized light and aseleuite 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 rejjortedby Kellner, and represents a Japanese sample of the tubers produced()y 8. sagittifolia. This is included in the table for puri)

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