6 MISC. PUBLICATION 797, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
In the introduction to the first part of this work twenty titles 
dealing with the useful and the woody plants of the world were 
listed with annotations. It seems worth while to present the list 
again here, with a few deletions and a greater number of titles 
covering some additional subjects. They represent for the most 
part only a selection from the great array of publications available. 
For useful plants in general, Buschan’s Vorgeschichtliche 
Botanik der Cultur- und Nutzpflanzen,> de Candolle’s Origine 
des Plantes Cultivées,* Cazzuola’s Dizionario di Botanica Ap- 
plicata,’ Clute’s Useful Plants of the World,’ Freeman and 
Chandler’s The World’s Commercial Products,® Good’s Plants and 
Human Economics,’® Gram, Jensen, and Mentz’s Nytteplanter,"! 
Guillaumin’s Les Plantes Cultivées?2 and his Les Plantes 
Sauvages,'? Heuzé’s Les Plantes Industrielles,?* Hill’s Economic 
Botany,’> Holland’s Overseas Plant Products,* Perrot’s Matiéres 
5 BUSCHAN, GEORG. VORGESCHICHTLICHE BOTANIK DER CULTUR- UND NUTZPFLANZEN DER ALTEN 
WELT AUF GRUND PRAHISTORISCHER FUNDE. xii, 268 p. 23.5 cm. Breslau, 1895.—Account of 
early history of cultivated and useful plants in Egypt, Greece and Rome, etc., and in prehis- 
toric times; list of prehistoric localities with mention of plant remains found and references; 
bibliography. 
6 CANDOLLE, ALPHONSE DE. ORIGINE DES PLANTES CULTIVEES. 8. éd. iv, 385 p. 21cm. Paris, 
1886. (Bibliothéque scientifique internationale 43.) (lst ed. 1883.)—-General considerations; 
discussion of the principal and many minor cultivated plants, with consideration of uses, 
vernacular names, and history, with references, the species grouped according to the parts 
used; list of species, grouped geographically and according to parts used, with indication of 
approximate age in cultivation and name of native country; general observations and conclu- 
sions. The classical work on this subject; there are various editions in English from 1884 to 
1914. 
7 CAZZUOLA, FERDINANDO. DIZIONARIO DI BOTANICA APPLICATA ALLA MEDICINA, ALLA FARMACIA, 
ALLA VETERINARIA, ALL’ORTICOLTURA, ALL’AGRICOLTURA, ALL’INDUSTRIA E AL COMMERCIO. 720 p. 
8vo. Pisa, 1876.—Dictionary of about 20,000 useful plants of the world, with botanical and 
vernacular names, native country, uses, cultivation, etc. (Not seen; title and annotation from 
notice in Nuovo Gior. Bot. Ital. 9: 168-169. 1877.) 
8 CLUTE, W. N. THE USEFUL PLANTS OF THE WORLD. 8. ed. 4 p.l., 219 p. 22 cm. Indian- 
apolis, 1948. (1st ed., 1928, reprinted from Amer. Bot. v. 33-34, suppl. 1927-28.)—Popular 
treatment, with fairly extensive lists of principal species grouped by uses. 
9 FREEMAN, W. G., and CHANDLER, S. E. THE WORLD’S COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS. A DESCRIPTIVE 
ACCOUNT OF THE ECONOMIC PLANTS OF THE WORLD AND OF THEIR COMMERCIAL USES. 4 p.l., viii, 
391 p. illus. (incl. maps), col. plates. 28 em. London (also a Boston ed.), 1907.—Account 
of principal food plants and other plants of commercial importance grouped by uses; relates 
mostly to cultivated plants. 
10 Goop, R. D. PLANTS AND HUMAN ECONOMICS. xii, 202 p. 8 maps. 19 em. Cambridge, 
1933.—General considerations, discussion of different groups of useful plants with mention of 
principal species; short bibliography, systematic list of species mentioned. 
11 GRAM, KAJ, JENSEN, HJALMAR, and MENTZ, AUGUST. NYTTEPLANTER. 4 p.l., 503 p. 300 
Aer ee cm. Kgbenhavn, 1937.—Semipopular treatment of useful plants of the world; bibliog- 
raphy. 
12 GUILLAUMIN, ANDRE. LES PLANTES CULTIVEES: HISTOIRE, ECONOMIE. 352 p. 16 pl. (on 8). 
23 cm. Paris, 1946. (Bibliothéque scientifique.)—General considerations; running account of 
culated useful (including some ornamental) plants, grouped by uses; new cultural proce- 
ures, etc. 
13 GUILLAUMIN, ANDRE. LES PLANTES SAUVAGES: BIOLOGIE ET UTILISATION. 219 p. 8 pl. (on 
4). 22.5 cm. Paris, 1948. (Bibliothéque scientifique.)—Edaphie factors, plant formations, 
botanical features of different regions, etc.; running account of principal useful wild plants, 
grouped by uses; mention of various plants characterized by peculiar form, fruit, biology, etc. 
14 HEUZE, GUSTAVE. LES PLANTES INDUSTRIELLES. 3. éd. 4 v. illus. 18.5 cm. Paris, 1893-95, 
(1st ed. 1859-60.)—Treatment of principal industrial plants (including some medicinal plants, 
but no food plants except condiments and spices) with account of history, cultivation, prop- 
erties, uses, etc.; deals mainly with cultivated species. 
15 HILL, A. F. ECONOMIC BOTANY. A TEXTBOOK OF USEFUL PLANTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS. 2 ed. 
xii. 560 p. 250 fig. 23.5 em. New York, 1952. (1st ed. 1937.) —Discussion of useful plants, 
eevee by uses; systematic list of species; bibliography, composed entirely of publications in 
nglish. 
16 HOLLAND, J. H. OVERSEAS PLANT PRODUCTS. vii, 279 p. 18.5 cm. London, 1937.—Briefly 
annotated alphabetical list of trade names, with botanical names and localities, of ‘‘all the nat- 
ural products of vegetable origin, imported on a commercial scale into the docks under the con- 
trol of the Port of London Authority and into other ports, for landing and delivery to the 
consignees in the markets of the United Kingdom. Others of economic value in the countries 
of production, including many that have been sent to Kew from time to time for identification, 
are also included.” Has bibliography. 
