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is a plant of North America. In New England, Josselyn found the roots of the watr lily with yellow flowers, after long boiling, eaten by the natives and tasting like sheep-liver. R. Brown says the seeds are a staple article of diet among the Klamaths of southern Oregon. Newberry saw many hundred bushels collected for winter use among the Indians of the western coast and says the seeds taste like those of broom corn and are apparently very nutritious.
