256 sturtevant's notes on edible plants 



and quality.' In China the tree grows as far north as Fuhchau but 'does not produce 

 as good fruit as in Canton. It is a more acid fruit than the apple and serves for cooking 

 rather than as a table fruit. It resembles the medlar but is superior to it in flavor and size. 



Eriodendron anfractuosum DC. Malvaceae, cabbage-wood, ceiba. 



Asia and tropical Africa. The fruit is eaten in India sometimes cooked and some- 

 times raw.^ At Celebes, the seeds are eaten.' 



Erioglossum edule Blimie. Sapindaceae. 



A shrub or small tree of Java and the islands of the Indian Archipelago. The fruit 

 is edible.* A cider is made in Java from the pericarp of the fruit.' 



Erisma japura Spruce. Vochysiaceae. japura. 



Brazil. The kernel of the red fruit is pleasant eating both raw and boiled. By a 

 process of boiling and leaving in running water for several weeks, and then poimding in 

 a mortar, it is made into a sort of butter, which is eaten with fish and game, being mixed 

 in the gravy. People who can get over its vile smell, which is never lost, find it exceedingly 

 savory.' 



Erodium cicutariiun L'Herit. Geraniaceae. pin grass, storksbill. wild musk. 



Europe and introduced into America. This plant, when young, is gathered and cooked, 

 or eaten raw by the Blackfeet, Shoshone and Digger Indians. Fremont ' saw it thus 

 used, and R. Brown ' says it is the pin grass of the Californians of which the stem is edible. 



E. jacquinianum Fisch. 



In Egypt, the tubercles are eaten.* 



Eruca sativa Mill. Cruciferae. rocket. 



Mediterranean region and western Asia. Rocket is called " a good salat-herbe " 

 by Gerarde, and Don i" says the leaves and tender stalks form an agreeable salad. Syme " 

 says it is used in southern Europe as a salad. It is cultivated for its leaves and stalks 

 which are used as a salad. Walsh ^^ says, it is a fetid, offensive plant but is highly esteemed 

 by the Greeks and Turks, who prefer it to any other salad. It was cultivated by the 

 ancient Romans. Albertus Magnus," in the thirteenth centtiry, speaks of it in gardens; 



' Redmond, D. Amer. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 56. 1875. {MespUus japonica) 



Baillon, H. Hist. Pis. 4:116. 1875. 



Ainslie, W. A/a/. /nd. 2:96. 1826. 



Brandis, D. Forest Fl. 108. 1876. 



'Baillon, H. Hist. Pis. y. 387. 1878. (Pancovia edulis) 



Black, A. A. Trees. Bot. 1:464. 1870. 



' Fremont Explor. Exp^d. 243. 1845. 



Brown, R. So/. 5oc. Edi'nJ. 9:385. 1868. 



'Baillon, H. Hist. Pis. %: 32. 1878. (E. hirtum) 



'"Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 1:53. 1831. 



" Syme, J. T. Treas. Bot. 1:465. 1870. 



"Walsh, R. Trans. Horl. Soc. Lond. 6:$i. 1826. {Brassica eruca) 



" Albertus Magnus Veg. Jessen Ed. 507. 1867. 



