Show THE SNAKE yut NUT A jader vegetable ablo production ot of the act U cst indie A nut which should be classed with such wonderful erful vegetable p productions dictions duct ions as the vegetable worm of china the vegetable fly of australia Anstr alia and other plant oddities of that ilk is the snake nut of Deme rara telis pam paradoxical vegetable is said to also grow in in some P parts of cuba and british guiana the first specimen in the british museum having baving been becu sent from the latter country these remarkable nuts vary in size some being as large as a goose egr egg 1 others not larger than a walnut val nut the kernel of each and everyone every one does not simply bear a close resemy resemblance I 1 ance but is a perfect counterpart of a boa constrictor lying alyin coiled up as if asleep the head general taper of the body spot spots is and everything being true to life |