pomme de terre

[Alan H. Hartley]

Gary Moulton's footnote to Lewis' "common wild pittatoe" (VII.224):

Apios americana..Indian potato, ground nut, potato bean. It grows on the
banks of streams and floodplains and "is the true pomme de terre of the
French and the modo or wild potato of the Sioux Indians"... Report of
Commissioner of Agriculture for 1870

Note mdo.

Alan