576 sturtevant's notes on edible plants 



T. comiculata Linn. 



South Europe and Asia Minor. In Bengal, this plant serves as a vegetable food.' 



T. foenum-graecum Linn, fenugreek, helbeh. 



Europe and the Orient. Fenugreek is cultivated in Morocco, in the south of France 

 near Montpelier, in Alsace, in a few places in Switzerland, in some provinces of the German 

 and Austrian Empires, as Thuringia and Moravia, and on a large scale in Egypt, where 

 it is known as helbeh.* In Egypt, fenugreek is eaten crude and its sprouting seeds are 

 often mixed in a ragout with honey.' Helbeh conserve, says Pickering,* was once an article 

 of export, even to Britain, and to the present day is employed by Arabs along the east 

 African coast for child-stealing. At Rosetta, the seeds are used as a coffee. Fenugreek 

 is a favorite article of diet with the Parsees of India, says Pickering,' It is extensively 

 cultivated in India, says Dutt,* the seeds to be used as a condiment and the aromatic 

 leaves as a potherb. In 1859,^ seeds of helbeh were introduced into the United States 

 through the Patent Office from Palestine, and they are now offered in our seed catalogs. 



T. radiata Boiss. 



Asia Minor and Persia. In China the curved legumes were formerly eaten.* 



T. suavissima Lindl. 



Australia. This species is mentioned by Mueller as a food plant of Australia.' 



Trilisa odoratissima Cass. Compositae. Carolina vanilla, deer's tongue. 



Virginia and southward. The leaves exhale the odor of vanilla when bruised, and, 

 in Florida, the plant has become in some degree an article of commerce, being used by 

 tobacconists for flavoring smoking tobacco. " 



Triosteum perfoliatum Linn. Caprifoliaceae. fever root, wild coffee. 



Eastern North America. Barton " reports that Muhlenburg told him that the dried 

 and toasted berries were considered by some of the Germans of Pennsylvania an excellent 

 substitute for coffee. 



Triphasia aurantiola Lour. Rutaceae. lime berry. 



A shrub of tropical Asia. Loureiro ^ says the berry is red, ovate, half the size of 

 a coffee bean, covered with a thin pellicle and contains a sweet, clammy, inodorous, edible 



Unger, P. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt. 359. 1859. (T. esculenta) 

 Fliickiger and Hanbury Phartn. 151. 1879. 

 'Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pis. 174. 1879. 

 * Ibid. 



'Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pis. 37. 1879. 

 Dutt, U. C. Mat. Med. Hindus 144. 1877. 

 ' U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt. 20. 1859. 



Smith, P.P. Contrib. Mat. Med. China 145. 1871. 

 Unger, P. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt. 357. 1859. 

 ^V. S. D.A. Rpt. 170. 1871. 

 " Barton, W. P. C. Med. Bot. 1:63. 1817. 

 " Loureiro Fl. Cochin. 152. 1790. 



