326 sturtevant's notes on edible plants 



Lansium domesticum Jack. Meliaceac. 



A tree of eastern Asia, cultivated in China. Its fruit is sold in the Canton markets. 

 The fruit is the size of a pigeon's egg, of a yellowish color without and whitish within. 

 It is highly esteemed and is eaten fresh or variously prepared. It is known in the East 

 Indies as lansa, langsat, lattseli, ayer-ayer or bejetlan} In Borneo, Wallace^ calls it one 

 of the most delicious of the subacid, tropical fruits. 



Lantana trifolia Linn. Verbenaceae. 



Tropical America. Sloane says the fruit is more juicy than that of other species and 

 is not unpleasant to eat.' 



Lapageria rosea Ruiz & Pav. Liliaceae. 



Chile. The berries, which are of the size of an egg, are sweet and edible.'' 



Lapsana communis Linn. Compositae. nipplewort. 



Etu^ope, Orient, northern Asia and naturalized in America. The young leaves in the 

 spring have the taste of radishes and are eaten at Constantinople as a salad. In some 

 parts of England, the common people boil them as greens, but they have a bitter and 

 not agreeable taste. 



Lardizabala bitemata Ruiz et Pav. Berberideae. 



Chile and Peru. The fruit is eatable and is sold in the market. The pulp is sweet 

 and grateful to the taste. It is called in Peru aquilboguil or guilbogin and in Chile 

 coguillvochi.^ 



L. tritemata Ruiz & Pav. 



Chile. This plant has edible fruit.' 



Larix europaea DC. Coniferae. European larch. 



Europe and northern Asia. The Jakuts of northern Siberia grate the inner bark 

 and use it in a broth of fish, meal, and milk. A kind of sugary matter exudes from the 

 the larch in the summer and is collected under the name of manna, or briancono. When 

 the larch forests of Russia take fire, a juice exudes from the scorched trunks which is 

 collected under the name of orenburgh gum.* 



Larrea mexicana Moric. Zygophylleae. creosote plant. 



Mexico. Travellers chew the twigs to alleviate extreme thirst.' The plant is a bright 

 evergreen with foliage resembling that of Buxus. 



' Seemann, B. Treas. Bol. 2:659. 1870. 

 Wallace, A. R. Malay Arch. 94. 1869. 

 ' Lunan, J. Hort. Jam. 2:294. 1814. 

 * Mueller, F. Sel. Pis. 251. 1891. 

 Lightfoot, J. Fl. Scot. 1:445. 1789. 

 Don, G. Hisl. Dichl. Pis. 1:103. 1831. 

 'Baillon, H. Hist. Pis. 3:70. 1874. 

 U. S. Disp.Sii. 1865. 

 Greene, E.L. Amer. Nat. 15:25. 1881. 



