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North America. This plant is called in the western states, according to Serra, Indian salad or Shawnee salad, because eaten as such by the Indians, when tender. Some of the first settlers ate the plant.
== ''Hygrophila spinosa'' T. Anders. ==
''Acanthaceae.''
East India and Malay. The leaves are used as a potherb.
== ''Hymenaea courbaril'' Linn. ==
''Leguminosae.''
A colossal tree of tropical and southern subtropical South America. The pods contain three or four seeds, inclosed in a whitish substance, as sweet as honey, which the Indians eat with great avidity, though, says Lunan, it is apt to purge when first gathered. Brown, in British Guiana, says this pulp tastes not unlike a dry cake, being sweet and melting in the mouth. It is called algarroba in Panama, jatal in Brazil and simiri in Guiana.
== ''Hyoseris lucida'' Linn. ==
''Compositae''. SWINE'S SUCCORY.
Egypt. Wilkinson says this plant is the hypocheris of Pliny and is esculent.
== ''Hypelate paniculata'' Cambess. ==
''Sapindaceae.''
West Indies. The fruit is the size of a plum and is edible after roasting.
== ''Hyphaene thebaica'' Mart. ==
''Palmae''. GINGERBREAD TREE.
African tropics. The fruits which are produced in long clusters, each containing between one and two hundred, are beautifully polished, of a rich, yellowish-brown color and are of irregular form. In Upper Egypt, they form part of the food of the poorer classes of inhabitants, the part eaten being the fibrous, mealy husk, which tastes almost exactly like gingerbread, but its dry, husky nature renders it unpalatable.
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