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Show Thursday. Julv iin a . Lilies used to be a fairly popular snack, but don't eat them if you can't accurately identify plants. meadows where common camass was abundant, say R. J. Shaw, USU botanist and director of the 194,000-plan- Every year, a few I'tahns usually court death when they eat the bulbs or other storage organs of poisonous lilies such as deathcamas, say researchers with Utah State University. Before onions (also a member of the lily family) were so ubiquitous, some edible lilies sustained pioneers, and were such an important food that Indian tribes fought over harvest rights. Some still forage for edible lilies, but some of the approximately 45 species of lily in Utah contain deadly poisons. V' Frank R. Otto leads the devellan- d works as resource for computer BYU 'Native Americans once fought intertribal wars over rights to Intermountain t Her- barium, and M. Coburn Williams, plant physiologist with USU and the USDA Poisonous Plant Laboratory. The researchers say the bulbs are tasty, but probably not worth fighting over. They describe the taste of raw bulbs as "crisp and palatable" but say boiled bulbs are "somewhat gummy." Indians also relished bulbs of the sego lily, the state flower, which they ate raw, roasted, or dried and used for flour. Mormon pioneers also ate the bulbs in the fall of 1848 when crops were damaged by crickets. Shaw says the sego lily is in a Shop weekdays "precarious situation" along the Wasatch Front due to development of its habitat, although it is relatively abundant in other areas of the state. Even though storage organs of many lilies, including glacier lilies and false solomon seal, are edible, Shaw says would-b- e lily gourmets should learn to identify lilies before consuming any, Many lilies in addition to deathcamas are poisonous, including and California falsehellebore. Bulbs of the deadly deathcamas are about the same size as bulbs of common camass. 25 And until the 1960s, as many as percent of the pregnant sheep grazing ranges infested with California falsehellebore gave birth to 10-- 9, Saturday lambs suffering a variety "Every year, we hear reports of someone who mistakes deathcamas for wild onions." Williams says. There are 11 indigenous species of wild onions and garlics in Utah, which have been eaten since ancient times. They could impart an onion flavor to milk if eaten cows contains a compound that affects the heart. All parts of the plant are poisonous. And even onions could have deleterious effects if a person consumed amounts equivalent to one-hapercent of body weight over a peritd of time. lf 10-- 7 Shop our new South Towne store this Saturday until 9 languages language d in- struction. The problem is now in the past because of an organization at Brig ham Young University that serves as a worldwide clearinghouse for ideas ,about teaching and learning languages with the help of computers. Begun three years ago by BYU linguistics Professor Frank R. Otto, the Computer Assisted Language Learning and Instruction Consortium (CALICO), offers a valuable store of information and services. Membership includes subscription to a quarterly journal and reduced fees for one symposium each year in the United States and one abroad, a summer institute with intensive instruction, a monograph series, an audio tape instruction series, and, perhaps most importantly, a data base that includes a directory of researchers, listings of available software and courseware, and bibliographic references. The symposia CALICO puts on are among the best evidences of the organization's growing worldwide influence. One in Japan last December attracted researchers, exhibitors, academicians and consultants from- - all over the world. And the yearly U.S. symposium in May drew people from 70 universities and eight foreign ministries of education to Annapolis, Md. It featured 110 presentations, 24 exhibitors and 16 hands-on- , intensive workshops. The 1987 international symposium is slated for Paris, and the person volunteering to orchestrate logistics there can't say enough good about CALICO or about Otto. Denis Rothman, public relations specialist for France's Ministry of Education, was at the Annapolis symposium and says it was the best meeting of its kind he has ever attended. "The organization is excellent and enables people like me (without formal training in the field) to participate easily," says Rothman. "I go to these kinds of meetings in France and Europe all the time, but this was the best symposium I've been to." Rothman is raising newspaper and television interest in the symlanposium and in computer-aide- d guage learning itself, and he says "this thing," CALICO, "has to be known in France." He is just as enthusiastic about Otto. "Frank Otto is one of the best communication people I have .met," he says. "I'm a rough per- son, and I would say the opposite if I wanted to." Aside from his personal qualities. Otto is in fact a leader in the field, producing computer programs that work with interactive videodiscs to teach lanstate-of-the-a- rt guages. Most of his work is funded at the U.S. by and is being used Defense Department's Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif. There, hundreds of U S. diplomats and officers learn the languages they'll need in assignments overseas. Those learning German are using Otto's "German Gateway" pro- fellow officers learning lan- gram, and the difference between their learning experience and that of guages in traditional ways is dramatic, according to the results of ongoing tests that evaluate Otto's innovations. The typical DLI student arrives for classes and by 9 a.m. and is gone by 3:30 p.m., says Otto. Those learning on his program begin arriving around 7 a.m. and some have to be encouraged to leave at the 10 p.m. closing time. The disparity, says Otto, is the inhighly individualized nature of teractive videodisc instruction. With this new technology, students can learn at their own pace, without the embarrassment and awk-- . wardness of trying to speak an unfamiliar tongue This Friday and Saturday only, save an additional 25 on the existing clearance prices of all spring and summer merchandise. That's a savings of as much as 75 in the following departments, including Family Store: All dress departments All sportswear departments All coat departments All intimate apparel depts. All juniors' departments All men's and boys' depts. All accessory departments All Family Store depts. (Sale applies only to spring and summer clearance merchandise.) y2h of Herbicides and management techniques have largely eliminated the problem in sheep. The formative years of a new technology almost always entail a good deal of wasted energy as researchers reinvent the wheel, duplicate one another's work and fail to combine efforts only because they often don't know who might share their research interests. Such is the case or was the case with the burgeoning field of computer-assiste- THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, - Page 33 e careful in eafing wold plan? life mm. opment of computer-aideguage instruction. 31. 1986 2 Some European lilies have escaped cultivation and become naturalized, including garden asparaand grape gus, hyacinth. More are likely to become naturalized in the future, a process that shouldn't pose any ecological threat. Few people now eat lilies, but thousands are lured to subalpine valleys to view their flowers. "A solid meadow of glacier lilies is a stunning sight, especially in places such as the Uin'a Mountains and the area around Alta," Shaw says. Shaw and Williams review the distribution and attributes of lilies in an article in the Summer 1986 issue of Utah Science, a quarterly publication of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station. |
