Apios, a North American plant of the pea order (Leguminosæ), with tuberous, starchy, edible rhizomes. Attention was specially directed to it by the French traveller Lamare-Picquot, but attempts at cultivation have not been to any practical extent successful.
Apios
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 333
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