Select extra-tropical plants : readily eligible for industrial culture or naturalization, with indications of their native countries and some of their uses / by Baron Ferd. von Mueller.
- Ferdinand von Mueller
- Date:
- 1885
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Select extra-tropical plants : readily eligible for industrial culture or naturalization, with indications of their native countries and some of their uses / by Baron Ferd. von Mueller. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Chondrus crispus, Lyngbye. Shores of the Northern Atlantic Ocean. “ Caragaheen.” This well- known alg yields a nutritious and palatable gelatine on boiling, and has thus become even of some therapeutic importance. The ready steam-communication all over the world affords doubtless now the opportunity of carrying also highly useful algs widely from shore to shore in portable aquaria. In Australia the Eucheuma speciosum (J. Agardh) and Gelidium glandulifolium (Harvey) are marine jelly- weeds, well deserving of wide translocation. Chrysanthemum cinerarifolium, Boccone. {Pyrethrum dnerarifolium, Trevisan.) Austria. Furnishes the Dalmatian Insect-powder. It is superior even to the Persian powder as an insecticide; it will keep for years. It is prepared from half-opened flowers during dry weather, and ex- siccated under cover. Best applied in puffs from a tube. To be used also against aphides (W. Saunders). [See further U. S. Agricultural Report for 1881-2.] Chrysanthemum parthenium, Persoon. (Pyrethrumparthenium, Smith.) Middle and Southern Europe. “Feverfew.” The root, foliage and flowers of this perennial herb are in request for medicinal purposes since ancient times; the variety with yellow foliage serves for edging of garden-plots, ribbon- and carpet-culture. Chrysanthemum roseum, Adam. (Pyrethrum roseum, Bieberstein.) Sub-alpine South-Western Asia. This perennial herb, with C. coronopifolium (Willdenow) yields the Persian Insect-powder. Chusquea Culeou, E. Desvaux. Chili, Yaldivia, Argentina. This Bamboo exceeds not often 20 feet in height; the autochthones on the La Plata-River use it for lances. C. heterophylla and C. Cumingii (Ne'es) serve in the same region for thatch-roofing (Hieronymus). C. andina (Philippi) grows in Chili near the snow-line. Cicer arietinum, Dodoens. South-Europe and South-Western Asia. The Gram or Chick-Pea. An annual herb, valuable as a pulse for stable-food, but an extensive article also of human diet in India. Colonel Sykes counted as many as 170 seeds on one plant. In Spain, next to wheat, the most ex- tensively used plant for human food (Honorable Caleb Cushing). The seeds can be converted into pea-meal or can be used in various other ways for culinary purposes. Cichorium Endivia, Linnu. South-Europe, North-Africa, Orient, Middle Asia. A biennial plant, used even in ancient times as a culinary vegetable. In Nor- way it grows to lat. 70° (Schuebeler). The inner leaves are bleached for food by tying the outer leaves together (Vilmorin). G](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28051051_0101.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
