The flower buds and fruits of the common garden nasturtium are often
used as a spice after being ground and dried; they are also pickled
like capers and used on fish, meats, etc. The name is derived from
nausa, nose, and tortus, twist, from the effects of its pungent smell
or taste.
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Transcriber’s note:
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a
predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they
were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unpaired quotation
marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left
unpaired.
A Table of Contents was added by the Transcriber.
Page 28: “the races of hands” probably should be “the races or hands”.
Page 32: “musterial” probably should be “material” or “materials”.