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  G. 
  L. 
  Goodale 
  — 
  Possibilities 
  of 
  Economic 
  Botany. 
  

  

  Notes. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  are 
  among 
  the 
  more 
  useful 
  works 
  of 
  a 
  general 
  character, 
  deal- 
  

   ing 
  with 
  the 
  subject. 
  Others 
  are 
  referred 
  to 
  either 
  in 
  the 
  text 
  or 
  notes. 
  The 
  

   reader 
  may 
  consult 
  also 
  the 
  list 
  of 
  works 
  on 
  Economic 
  Botany 
  in 
  the 
  catalogue 
  

   published 
  by 
  the 
  Linnsean 
  Society. 
  

  

  Select 
  Extra-tropical 
  Plants, 
  readily 
  eligible 
  for 
  industrial 
  culture 
  or 
  naturaliza- 
  

   tion, 
  with 
  indications 
  of 
  their 
  native 
  countries 
  and 
  some 
  of 
  their 
  uses. 
  By 
  Baron 
  

   Ferd. 
  von 
  Mueller, 
  K.C.M.G., 
  F.R.S., 
  etc, 
  Government 
  Botanist 
  for 
  Victoria. 
  

   (Melbourne), 
  1888. 
  Seventh 
  edition, 
  revised 
  and 
  enlarged. 
  

  

  At 
  the 
  close 
  of 
  his 
  treatise 
  on 
  industrial 
  plants, 
  Baron 
  von 
  Mueller 
  has 
  grouped 
  

   the 
  genera 
  indicating 
  the 
  different 
  classes 
  of 
  useful 
  products 
  in 
  such 
  a 
  manner 
  

   that 
  we 
  can 
  ascertain 
  the 
  respective 
  numbers 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  genera. 
  Of 
  course 
  

   many 
  of 
  these 
  genera 
  figure 
  in 
  more 
  than 
  one 
  category. 
  

  

  He 
  has 
  also 
  arranged 
  the 
  plants 
  according 
  to 
  the 
  countries 
  naturally 
  producing 
  

   them. 
  

  

  Useful 
  Native 
  Plants 
  of 
  Australia, 
  (including 
  Tasmania). 
  By 
  J. 
  H. 
  Maiden, 
  

   F.L.S., 
  Curator 
  of 
  the 
  Technological 
  Museum 
  of 
  New 
  South 
  Wales, 
  Sydney. 
  

   (Sydney), 
  1889. 
  

  

  See 
  also 
  note 
  19. 
  

  

  Handbook 
  of 
  Commercial 
  Geography. 
  By 
  Geo. 
  G. 
  Chisholm, 
  M.A.. 
  B.Sc. 
  

   London, 
  1889. 
  

  

  New 
  Commercial 
  Plants 
  with 
  directions 
  how 
  to 
  grow 
  them 
  to 
  the 
  best 
  advan- 
  

   tage. 
  By 
  Thomas 
  Christy 
  (London), 
  Christy 
  and 
  Co. 
  

  

  Dictionary 
  of 
  popular 
  names 
  of 
  the 
  plants 
  which 
  furnish 
  the 
  natural 
  and 
  

   acquired 
  wants 
  of 
  man. 
  By 
  John 
  Smith, 
  A.L.S. 
  (London), 
  1882. 
  

  

  Cultivated 
  Plants. 
  Their 
  propagation 
  and 
  improvement. 
  By 
  F. 
  W. 
  Burbage. 
  

   (London), 
  1877. 
  

  

  The 
  Wanderings 
  of 
  Plants 
  and 
  animals 
  from 
  their 
  first 
  home. 
  By 
  Victor 
  

   Hehn, 
  edited 
  by 
  James 
  Steven 
  Stallybrass, 
  (London) 
  1 
  885. 
  

  

  Researches 
  into 
  the 
  Early 
  History 
  of 
  Mankind, 
  and 
  the 
  Development 
  of 
  Civiliza- 
  

   tion. 
  By 
  Edward 
  B. 
  Tylor, 
  D.C.L., 
  LL.D., 
  F.R.S., 
  1878. 
  

  

  1 
  The 
  number 
  of 
  species 
  of 
  Pbsenogamia 
  has 
  been 
  given 
  by 
  many 
  writers 
  as 
  

   not 
  far 
  from 
  150,000. 
  But 
  the 
  total 
  number 
  of 
  species 
  recognized 
  by 
  Bentham 
  

   and 
  Hooker 
  in 
  the 
  Genera 
  Plantarum 
  (Durand's 
  Index) 
  is 
  100,220, 
  in 
  210 
  Natural 
  

   Orders 
  and 
  8,417 
  genera. 
  

  

  2 
  Dr. 
  E. 
  Lewis 
  Sturtevant, 
  to 
  whose 
  kindness 
  I 
  am 
  indebted 
  for 
  great 
  assist- 
  

   ance 
  in 
  the 
  matter 
  of 
  references 
  has 
  placed 
  at 
  my 
  disposal 
  many 
  of 
  his 
  notes 
  on 
  

   edible 
  plants, 
  etc. 
  From 
  his 
  enumeration 
  it 
  appears 
  that 
  if 
  we 
  count 
  all 
  the 
  

   plants 
  which 
  have 
  been 
  cultivated 
  for 
  food 
  at 
  one 
  time 
  or 
  another, 
  the 
  list 
  con- 
  

   tains 
  1,192 
  species, 
  but 
  if 
  we 
  count 
  all 
  the 
  plants 
  which 
  "either 
  habitually 
  or 
  

   during 
  famine 
  periods 
  are 
  recorded 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  eaten," 
  we 
  obtain 
  a 
  list 
  of 
  no 
  

   less 
  than 
  4,690 
  species, 
  or 
  about 
  three 
  and 
  one-half 
  per 
  cent 
  of 
  all 
  known 
  species 
  

   of 
  plants. 
  But, 
  as 
  Sir 
  Joseph 
  Hooker 
  has 
  said, 
  the 
  products 
  of 
  many 
  plants 
  

   though 
  eatable, 
  are 
  not 
  fit 
  to 
  eat. 
  

  

  3 
  The 
  Folk-Lore 
  of 
  Plants. 
  By 
  T. 
  F. 
  Thiselton 
  Dyer, 
  1889. 
  

  

  4 
  In 
  Dr. 
  Sturtevant's 
  list. 
  88 
  species 
  of 
  Gramineae 
  are 
  counted 
  as 
  food-plants 
  

   under 
  cultivation, 
  while 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  species 
  in 
  this 
  order 
  which 
  can 
  be 
  or 
  

   have 
  been 
  utilized 
  as 
  food 
  amounts 
  to 
  146. 
  Our 
  smaller 
  number 
  20 
  comprises 
  

   only 
  those 
  which 
  have 
  been 
  grown 
  on 
  a 
  large 
  scale 
  anywhere. 
  

  

  5 
  "In 
  Agricultural 
  Museum 
  at 
  Poppelsdorf, 
  600 
  varieties 
  are 
  exhibited." 
  

  

  6 
  E. 
  L. 
  S. 
  in 
  letter. 
  Quoted 
  from 
  Seedsman's 
  catalogue. 
  

  

  7 
  The 
  best 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  early 
  history 
  of 
  these 
  and 
  other 
  cultivated 
  plants 
  can 
  

   be 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  classical 
  work 
  of 
  De 
  Candolle 
  " 
  Origine 
  des 
  Plantes 
  Cultivees 
  (Paris) 
  

   translated 
  in 
  the 
  International 
  series, 
  History 
  of 
  Cultivated 
  Plants, 
  (N. 
  Y.) 
  The 
  

   reader 
  should 
  consult 
  also 
  Darwin's 
  Aidmals 
  and 
  Plants 
  under 
  Domestication. 
  

  

  b 
  Food-grains 
  of 
  Indicia. 
  A. 
  H. 
  Church, 
  London, 
  1886, 
  p. 
  34. 
  In 
  this 
  instructive 
  

   work 
  the 
  reader 
  will 
  find 
  much 
  information 
  regarding 
  the 
  less 
  common 
  articles 
  of 
  

   food 
  Of 
  Panicum 
  frumenlaceum 
  Professor 
  Georgeson 
  states 
  in 
  a 
  letter 
  that 
  it 
  

   is 
  grown 
  in 
  Japan 
  for 
  its 
  grain 
  which 
  is 
  used 
  for 
  food, 
  but 
  here 
  would 
  take 
  rank 
  

   as 
  a 
  fodder 
  plant. 
  

  

  