CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION : 



I. Economic Botany more than Fifty Years ago - 9 



II. The Progress of Economic Botany in England 



during the last Fifty Years (1837-1887) - 13 



PART I. FOODS, FOOD-STUFFS, AND FOOD- ADJUNCTS - 21 



Section I. Starches and Bread-stuffs - - 28 



2. Sugars - - 35 



3. Pulse - 38 



4. Roots and Tubers - - 40 



5. 'Vegetables' - 44 



6. Fruits - So 



7. Nuts- - 57 



8. Food-adjuncts - 61 



(1) Alcoholic - 61 



(2) Condiments - - 63 



(3) Flavourers - - 65 



(4) Alkaloids - 68 



II. MATERIA MEDICA - - 72 



III. OILS AND OIL- SEEDS, ETC. - - 127 



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