STURTEVANT S NOTES ON EDIBLE PLANTS 489 



Reptonia buxifolia A. DC. Myrsineae. 



A large shrub or small tree of India. The drupe is sessile, globose, one-third of an 

 inch in diameter or more, glabrous, greenish, with a fleshy, sweet pericarp in a coriaceous 

 rind. This fniit is much esteemed and during the season is sold in most bazaars. The 

 ptdp is sweet but there is not much of it.' The Afghans sell the fruits in their bazaars 

 under the name of goorgoora} 



Reseda phyteuma Linn. Resedaceae. 



Mediterranean shores and Asia Minor. Sibthorp ' found the leaves of this plant 

 cooked and eaten in Greece. 



Reynosia latifoUa Griseb. Rhamneae. red ironwood. 



Cuba and semitropical Florida. The edible fruit ripens in April and May and is 

 of an agreeable flavor.* 



Rhaninus carolinlana Walt. Rhamneae. buckthorn. Indian cherry. 



Long Island, west along the Ohio to southern Illinois. The edible fruit is sweet and 

 agreeable.' 



R. crocea Nutt. 



Western North America. The berries are collected by the Apache Indians and used 

 as food, mixed with whatever animal substances may be at hand. The berries impart 

 a red color to the mixture, which is absorbed into the circulation and tinges the 

 skin.* 



R. persica Boiss. 



Persia and the Himalayan region. In Persia, the fruit is sweet and edible but 

 emetic* 



R. purshiana DC. bearberry. 



North America. The purple berries are much esteemed among the Indians. * 



R. staddo A. Rich. 



Abyssinia. This species forms part of a kind of beer in which its bitter bark 

 supplies the place of hops.' 



Rhapidophylium hystrix H. Wendl. & Drude. Palmae. 



Georgia and Florida. The plant bears a brown, edible berry of a sweet flavor.'" 



' Brandis, D. Forest Fl. 287. 1874. 



' Black, A. A. Treas. Bot. 2:966. 1870. 



Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pis. 481. 1879. 



* Sargent U. S. Census 9:39. 1884. 

 ' Sargent U. S. Census 9:40. 1884. 

 *V.S. D.A.Rpt.^ii^. 1870. 



' Brandis, D. Forest Fl. 93. 1874. 



Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 2:32. 1832. 



Baillon, H. Hist. Pis. 6:72. 1880. (R. inehrians) 

 Seemann, B. Pop. Hist. Palms 145. 1856. 



