sturtevant's notes on edible plants 325 



Lallemantia iberica Fisch. & Mey. Labiatae. 



Asia Minor and S^Tia. The seeds are very rich in fat and are used for food, as well 

 as for lighting purposes, in the northwest districts of Persia. 



Laminaria digitata Lam. Algae, red-ware, sea-girdles, sea-wand, sea-ware. 



TANGLE. 



The tender stalks of the young fronds of this seaweed are eaten.^ 

 L. esculenta Lindbl. badderlock. 



Orkney. The midrib of the stem of this seaweed is eaten.^ 



L. potatorum Labill. 



This plant is used as food by the natives of Australia.' 



L. saccharina Lam. 



This seaweed is said to be eaten in Iceland and other northern countries.^ 



Lamium album Linn. Labiatae. archangel, dead-nettle, dumb-nettle. 



Europe and the Orient. The young leaves are boiled in the spring and eaten as 

 greens by the common people of Sweden.' 

 L. purpureum Linn, archangel, red dead-nettle. 



Europe, northern Asia and naturalized as a weed in some places in the United States. 

 The red dead-nettle, or archangel, is eaten in Sweden as greens in spring.' 



Landolphia fiorida Benth. Apocynaceae. rubber tree. 



Tropical Africa. This species furnishes the abo of tropical Africa, eaten by the natives.' 

 Montiero ' describes a species of this genus, probably this, as occurring in Angola and 

 called rubber tree. The fruit, the size of a large orange, is yellow when ripe; the shell is 

 hard and bitter and the inside full of a soft, reddish pulp in which the seeds are contained. 

 This pulp is of an agreeable acid flavor and is much liked by the natives. On the Niger, 

 according to Barter,' its fruit, which is very sour, is eaten by the natives under the name 

 of aboli. 



L. owariensis Beauv. 



Tropical Africa. This a climbing plant, the fruit of which is the size of an orange 

 and has a reddish-brown, woody shell and an agreeable, sweetish-acid pulp. It is eaten 

 by the natives and is called 060.' Schweinfurth says the fruit exceeds in sourness that 

 of the citron and the natives of Djur-land manufacture a beverage from it as refreshing 

 as lemonade. 



' Lindley, J. Veg. King. 21. 1846. 



* Rhind, W. Veg. King. 190. 1857. 

 ' Lindley, J. Veg. King. 21. 1846. 



* Johnson, C. P. Useful Pis. Gt. Brit. zoi. 1862. 

 ' Lightfoot, J. Fl. Scot. 1:308. 1789. 



* Lightfoot, J. Fl. Scot, i-.icx). 1789. 



' Jackson, J. R. Treas. Bot. 2:1311. 1876. 

 Montiero, J. J. Angola, River Congo i:\38. 1875. 

 Barter Gard. CAron. 17:472. 1882. New series. 

 " Schweinfurth, G. Heart A fr. i:ig2. 1874. (Carpodinus sp.?) 



