126 sturtevant's notes on edible plants 



CalUcarpa lanata Linn. Verbenaceae. 



East Indies. The bark has a peculiar, subaromatic and slightly bitter taste and is 

 chewed by the Cinghalese when they cannot obtain betel leaves.' 



Calligonum pallasia L'Herit. Polygonaceae. 



Caspian region, Russia and Siberia. The roots when pounded are said to furnish 

 a mucilaginous, edible substance resembling gtmi tragacanth.* 



C. polygonoides Linn. 



Armenia, Persia and northwestern India. The abortive flowers, which fall in great 

 numbers, are, in the south Pimjab and sometimes in Sind, swept up, made into bread, 

 or cooked with ghee and eaten.' s 



Callirhoe involucrata A. Gray. Malvaceae, poppy mallow. 



Northwestern America. The large, tapering root of this plant is said to be edible.* 

 It is an inmate of the flower garden in France.' 



C. pedata A. Gray, pimple mallow. 



Northwestern America. The roots of this species resemble those of a parsnip and 

 are used as food by the Indians of Nebraska and Idaho. In France it is grown in flower 

 gardens.'' 



Calluna vulgaris Salisb. Ericaceae, heath. 



Europe and North America. The Celtic tribes had a method of preparing an intoxi- 

 cating drink from a decoction of heath. This beverage, mixed with wild honey, was their 

 common drink at feasts.^ In the Hebrides, says Johnson,' a kind of beer is formed by 

 fermenting a mixttire of two parts of heath tops and one of malt. The Picts had a 

 mode of preparing beer or wine from the flowers of the heath. 



Calochortus elegans Pursh. Liliaceae. star tulip. 



Pacific northwest of America. The root of this plant is eaten by the Indians.'" 



C. luteUS Dougl. BUTTERFLY TULIP. SEGO LILY. 



Western United States. This plant has a small, bulbous root about the size of a walnut, 

 very palatable and nutritious and much used by the Indian tribes of Utah as an article 

 of food." The Mormons during their first years in Utah consimied the root in large 

 quantities. 



Ainslie, V7. Mat. Ind. 2:180. 1826. 



Syme, J. T. Treas. Bot. 2:937. 1870. (Pterocouus aphyllus) 

 Brandis, D. Forest. Fl. $72. 1874. 

 <Stansbury, H. Rpl. Gt. Salt Lake 384. 1853. 

 Vilmorin Fl. PL Ter. 199. 1870. 3rd Ed. 

 U.S.D.A. Rpt. 406. 1870. 

 .' Vilmorin F;. /*/. Ter. 199. 1870. 3rd Ed. 

 'Hog)?, W. Journ. Agr. 6:^$. 1836. 



Johnson, C. P. Useful Pis. Gt. Brit. 167. 1862. (Erica vulgaris) 

 " Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pis. 582. 1879. 

 " Stansbury, H. Rpt. Salt iMhe 160, 208, 397. 1853. 



