284 sturtevant's notes on edible plants 



of Sitka and are known by the name of koch. This plant is emimerated by Dall ' among 

 the usefiil indigenous Alaskan plants. In Kamchatka, the women collect the roots, which 

 are used in cookery in various ways; when roasted in embers, they supply the place of bread. 

 Captain Cook ' said he boiled and ate these roots as potatoes and found them wholesome 

 and pleasant. Royle ' says the bulbs are eaten in the Himalayan region. 



F. lanceolata Pursh. narrow-leaved fritillary. 



Western North America. The roots are eaten by some Indians.'' 



Fuchsia cor3rmbifiora Ruiz. & Pav. Onagrarieae. fuchsia. 



Peru. The fruit is said by J. Smith * to be wholesome and not unpalatable. 



F. denticulata Ruiz. & Pav. fuchsia. 

 Peru. The acid fruits are edible.^ 



F. racemosa Lam., fuchsia. 



Santo Domingo. It produces edible, acid fruits.' 



Fusanus acuminatus R. Br. Santalaceae. native peaches, quandong nut. 



Australia. Both the succulent outer part and kernel are edible.* The seeds are eaten 

 as almonds.' Lindley"says the fruit is as sweet and useful, to the New Hollanders as 

 almonds are to us. 



F. persicarius F. Muell. 



Australia. The bark of the root of this small variety of the sandal tree is roasted 

 by the Murray tribe of Australian natives in hot ashes and eaten. It has no taste but is 

 very nutritious. The native name is quantong.^^ 



Galactites tomentosa Moench. Compositae. 



A plant of the Mediterranean countries, described by Diodorus '- as an edible thistle 

 and by Dioscorides as eaten, while young, cooked with oil and salt. The tender flower- 

 stem is eaten in the region of the Dardanelles. 



Galega oflScinalis Linn. Leguminosae. goat's rue. 



Europe and western Asia. This European herb is recommended by Gerarde " as a 



' Dall, W. H. Alaska 517. 1897. 



'Cook Koyoge 3:118. 1773. 



= Royle, J. F. Illustr. Bot. Himal. 1:388. 1839. 



' Brown, R. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 9:380. 1868. 



'Smith, J. DoOT. Bo/. 385. 1871. 



Unger, F. V. S. Pat. Of. Rpt. 351. 1859. 



' Ibid. 



Mueller, F. Sel. Ph. 443. 1891. 



Henfrey, A. Bo/. 344. 1870. 

 '"Lindley, J. Feg. Xing. 788. 1846. 

 " Hooker, W. J. Journ. Bot. 9:267. 1857. 

 " Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pis. 448. 1879. 

 " Gerarde, J. Herb. 2nd ed. 1253. 1633 or 1636. 



