KITCHEN SCIENCE AND ART.
[1.] “Hor-deˈum Vul-gaˈre.” Latin noun and adjective, signifying common barley.
[2.] “Avēˈna Sa-tiˈva.” A species of bearded grass or wild oats; sown oats, literally.
[3.] “Lake habitations.” These are dwellings constructed within the margins of lakes, at some distance from the shore. Researches on the continent have established the fact that in prehistoric times nearly all the shallow lakes in Switzerland and the adjoining countries were peopled by lake-dwelling communities. Their villages were constructed on platforms which were supported by piles. Many of the huts which were built on these substructures were roughly constructed of branches of trees; the floors were of clay and the roofs were thatched.
[4.] “Orizza salva,” ō-rīˈza. Sown rice.
[5.] “Polygonum esculentum,” po-ligˈon-um es-cu-lenˈtum. “Polygonum” means many knees, referring to the numerous joints in the stems of these plants. “Esculentum” means esculent; fit to eat.
[6.] Transcriber’s Note: This note was omitted in the original, as were the notes for section “[The cereals]”.
HOME STUDIES IN CHEMISTRY.
[1.] “Grotto del Cane,” grotˈto del caˈnā. Grotto of the dog. An excavation at the foot of a hill not far from Naples. The “American Cyclopædia” says of it: “It would seem from Pliny’s reference to it as ‘Charon’s ditches,’ that in his time the mephitic gas for which it is still remarkable was exhaled in quantity sufficient to prove fatal to human life. At the present time this forms but a shallow stratum on the floor, in which a candle is extinguished and dogs are stifled by way of experiment. The custom of exhibiting the effect of the carbonic acid gas upon dogs has given the distinctive name to the grotto.”