20 SELECT PLANTS READILY ELIGIBLE 



permanent grasses on pastures, where it will continue long in 

 season. It would live well in oiu* Alps. The lamellar- 

 crystalline Cumarin is the principle on which the odour of 

 Anthoxanthemum depends. 



Anthriscus Cerefolium, Hoffmann. 



Europe and West Asia. The Chervil. An annual culinary- 

 plant, its herbage used as an aromatic condiment, but the 

 root seemingly deleterious. 



Anthyllis vulneraria, Linne. 



The Kidney- Yetch. All Europe, North Africa, West Asia. 

 This peremiial herb serves as sheep fodder, and is particularly 

 recommended for calcareous soils. It would also live on 

 oiu" Alps. 



Apios tuberosa, Moench. 



North America. A climber, with somewhat milky juice. 

 The mealy tubers are edible. 



Apium graveolens, Linne. 



The Celery. Europe, North Africa, North and Middle Asia. 

 It is here merely inserted with a view of pointing out, that it 

 might be readily naturalized on our sea-shores. 



Apium prostratum, La Billardiere. 



The Australian Celery. Extra-tropical Australia, New Zea- 

 land, extra-tropical South America. This also can be utilized 

 as a culinary vegetable. 



Apocynum cannabinum, Liime. 



On river-banks in North America. This is recorded among 

 plants yielding a textile fibre. 



Aponogeton crispus, Thunberg. 



From India to New South Wales. The tuberous roots of 

 this water-herb are amylaceous and of excellent taste, though 

 not large. The same remarks apply to A. monostachyus 

 Linne fil.). 



Aponogeton distachyos, Thunberg. 



South Africa. This curious water-plant, introduced already, 

 might be naturalized in our ditches, swamps and lakes, for 

 the sake of its edible tubers. The scented flowering portion 

 affords spinage. 



Aquilaria Agallocha, Eoxbui-gh. 



On the mountains of Silhet and Assam. A tree of immense 

 size, probably hardy in our warm forest-valleys. It fiu*nishes 

 the fragrant Calambac or Agallochum wood, kno-svn also as 

 Aggur or Tuggur or the Aloe-wood of commerce, famed since 

 ancient times. The odorous j)ortion is only partially distri- 

 buted through the stem. This wood is also of medicinal value. 



