Nasturtium
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.
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.
The book cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
Page [28]: “the races of hands” probably should be “the races or hands”.
Page [32]: “musterial” probably should be “material” or “materials”.