Vegetable substances used for the food of man / [Edwin Lankester].

  • Edwin Lankester
Date:
1832
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Credit: Vegetable substances used for the food of man / [Edwin Lankester]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ILLUSTRATIONS; No. Pag 1. Grain of Wheat, upper and under sides, 28 2. Ear and Plant of Spring Wheat, 30 3. Ear and Plant of Winter Wheat, ‘32 4. Ear and Plant of Duck-Bill Wheat, 33 5. Ear and Plant of Egyptian or many-spiked Wheat, 34 6. Ear and Plant of Polish Wheat, 35 7. Ear and Pfaht of Spelt Wheat, 36 8. Ear and Plant of one-seeded Wheat, SE: 9. Wheat-fly, (Musca pumilionis) in its different stages, 41 10. Corn Mildew (Uredo frumenti) greatly magnified, 48 11. Ear and Plant of Rye, 51 12. Ear and Plant of Common Spring Barley, 57 13. Premature germination of an Ear of Barley, 60 14, Ear and Plant of Winter Barley, 62 15. Ear and Plant of two-rowed Barley, 63 16. Common bearded Oats, and Common Oats, 69 17. Thames Corn-Barge, 80 18. Ear and Plant of Rice, 82. 19. Rice-birds, male and female, 95 20. Maize — Zea mays, 99 21. Ears of Maize, in different stages, 108 22. Italian Millet — Sitaria Italica, 116 23. Buck-wheat — Polygonum fagopyrum, 122 24. Cassava — Jatropha manthot, 5 153 25. Indians preparing cassava, 156 26. Salep — Orchis mascula, 158 27. Indian Arrow-root — Maranta arundinacea, 162 28. Wake-robin — Arum maculatum, 164 29. Sweet potato —- Convolvulus batata — 165 30. Yam — Dioscorea sativa, 167 31. Different sorts of Yam-roots, 168 32. The Banana, 170 33. Stem of the Sago tree, showing the pith from which the Sago is extracted, : 173 34, Cabbage-Palm — Areca oleracea, 177 VOL. XV. A
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