STURTEV ant's NOTES ON EDIBLE PLANTS 1 55 



Cedronella cana Hook. Lahiatae. hoary balm of gilead. 



Mexico. This pretty and very fragrant plant is useful for putting in a claret cup.' 



Cedrus libani Barrel. Coniferae. cedar of Lebanon. 



Asia Minor, Syria, Afghanistan, Himalayan region and Algeria. A kind of manna 

 was anciently collected from this tree.* 



Celastrus macrocarpus Ruiz & Pav. Celastrineae. staff tree. 



Peru. It has savory, alimentary buds. The seeds yield an edible oil.' 



C. scandens Linn, bitter sweet, staff vine, waxwork. 



Northern North America. The Chippewa Indians use the tender branches. The 

 plant has a thick bark which is sweetish and palatable when boiled.* 



Celosia argentea Linn. Amarantaceae. 



Cosmopolitan tropics. In China, this plant is a troublesome weed in flax- fields 

 but is gathered and consumed as a vegetable.' In France, it is grown in flower gardens.' 

 C. trigyna Linn. 



Tropical Africa. According to Grant,' this plant is eaten as a potherb. 



Celtis australis Linn. Urticaceae. celtis. European nettle, honeyberry. lote 

 tree. 

 Europe, temperate Asia and East Indies. The European nettle is a native of Barbary 

 and is grown as a shade tree in the south of France and Italy. Dr. Hogg* considers it 

 to be the lote tree of the ancients, " lotos to dendron " of Dioscorides and Theophrastus; 

 Sibthorp and Stackhouse are of the same opinion. The fruit is about the size of a small 

 cherry, yellow, dark brown or black. The modem Greeks are very fond of the fruits; 

 they are also eaten in Spain. They are called in Greece honeyberries and are insipidly 

 sweet. In India, Brandis* says a large, blackish or purple kind is called roku on the 

 Sutlej; a smaller yellow or orange kind choku. 



C. occidentalis Linn, hackberry. nettle tree, sugarberry. 



Southern and Western United States. This celtis is a fine forest tree. The fruits 

 are sweet and edible.'" 



C, tala Gill. 



Mexico. This is the cranjero or cranxero of the Mexicans. The berries of this shrub 

 are of the size of small peas, oval, orange-yellow and somewhat edible though astringent." 



>Gard. CAron. 17:559. 1882. 

 Geoflfrey Mat. Med. 2:584. 1741. 



BaiUon, H. Hist. Pis. 6:26. 1880. 

 *U. S. D. A. Rpi. ^22. 1870. 



Smith, F. P. Contrib. Mat. Med. China 57. 1871. 



Vilmorin Fl. PI. Ter. 237. 3rd Ed. 



' Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pis. 465. 1879. 



Hooker, W. J. Land. Journ. Bot. 1:203. 1834. 



Brandis, D. Forest Fl. 428. 1874. 

 Gray, A. Man. Bot. 443. 1868. 



u Torrey, J. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt. 253. 1857. 



