Book Edible Plants of the World

Librarian's note: It's literally just a list of the names of plants with facts about them ranging from "The berries as well as the flowers are eaten by the inhabitants of Peru" all the way to full page descriptions with taxonomy and citations. No pictures, so not super useful for identifying in the wild. Back cover: Gleaning edible plants from herbals, botanies, travel books, cultural histories, and experiments in scientific farming, Edward Lewis Sturtevant (1842-1898) complied notes for the largest and most accurate work on edible plants, cultigents, and secondary food sources ever written. 2,897 species with comments from over 560 ancient and modern sources virtually cover the entire field. The range is from the oldest known foods, the mallow and asphodel, through newcomers like the tomato and celery, to wild foods which become important under certain circumstances. Index of Synonyms. Index of Common Names.