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the size of the fist, while Lunan says bi'own, shining, of a yellow or orange color, with a 

 reddishness on one side when ripe. 



A. senegalensis Pers. 



African tropics and Guiana. The fruit is not much larger than a pigeon's egg but 

 its flavor is said, by Savine, to be superior to most of the other fruits of this genus.' 



A. squamosa Linn. anon, sugar apple, sweetsop. 



It is uncertain whether the native land of this tree is to be looked for in Mexico, or 

 on the plains along the mouth of the Amazon. Von Martins ^ found it forming forest 

 groves in Para. It is cultivated in tropical America and the West Indies and was early 

 transported to China, Cochin China, the Philippines and India. The fruit is conical 

 or pear-shaped with a greenish, imbricated, scaly shell. The flesh is white, full of long, 

 brown granules, very aromatic and of an agreeable strawberry-like, piquant taste.' 

 Rhind * says the pulp is delicious, having the odor of rose water and tasting like clotted 

 cream mixed with sugar. Masters * says the fruit is highly relished by the Creoles but is 

 little esteemed by Europeans. Lunan * says it is much esteemed by those who are fond 

 of fruit in which sweet prevails. Drury ' says the fruit is delicious to the taste and on 

 occasions of famine in India has literally proved the staff of life to the natives. 



Anthemis nobilis Linn. Compositae. camomile^ 



Europe. Natiu-alized in Delaware. This plant is largely cultivated for medicinal 

 ptuposes in France, Germany and Italy. It has long been cultivated in kitchen gardens, 

 an infusion of its flowers serving as a domestic remedy. The flowers are occasionally 

 used in the manufacture of bitter beer and, with wormwood, make to a certain extent 

 a substitute for hops. It has been an inmate of American gardens from an early period. 

 In France it is grown in flower-gardens.* 



Anthericiun hispidum Linn. Liliaceae. st. Bernard's lily. 



South Africa. The sprouts are eaten as a substitute for asparagus. They are by 

 no means unpalatable, says Carmichael,' though a certain clamminess which they possess, 

 that induces the sensation as of pulling hairs from between one's lips, renders them at first 

 unpleasant. 



Anthistiria imberbis Retz. Gramineae. 



Africa. This grass grows in great luxuriance in the Upper Nile region, 5 5' south, 

 and in famines furnishes the natives with a graip.'" 



' Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pis. 69. 1879. 

 > Unger, P. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpl. 350. 1859. 



Ibid. 



Rhind, W. Hist. Veg. King. 375. 1855. 

 ' Masters, M. T. Treas. Bol. 1:70. 1870. 

 Lunan, J. Hort. Jam. 2:180. 1814. 



' Drury, H. Useful Pis. Ind. 41. 1858. 



Vilmorin Fl. PI. Ter. 103. I870. 3rd Ed. 



Hooker, W. J. Bot. Misc. 2:264. 1831. 



"Speke, J. H. Journ. Disc. Source Nile 586. 1864. (A. ciliata) 



