142/172 197) says, "The milk of the _G. lactiferum_ is used instead of the vaccine ichor, and the leaves are employed in sauces in the room of cream." And LINDLEY, in his _Vegetable Kingdom_, in speaking of the Asclepiads, says, "the cow plant of Ceylon, 'kiri-anguna,' yields a milk of which the Singhalese make use for food; and its leaves are also used when boiled." Even in the _English Cyclopaedia_ of CHARLES KNIGHT, published so lately as 1854, this error is repeated. |