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Economic botany : plants in our world

Title: Economic botany : plants in our world / Beryl Brintnall Simpson, Molly Conner Ogorzaly.
Author: Simpson, Beryl Brintnall.
Publication: New York : McGraw-Hill, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

Conner-Ogorzaly, Molly.

Description

ix, 742 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map; 27 cm

Subject

Botany, Economic > United States

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 685-704) and index.

Contents

1. Features of Flowering Plants and Their Products -- 2. Variation, Selection, and Evolution in Flowering Plants -- 3. Origins of Agriculture -- 4. Fruits and Nuts of Temperate Regions -- 5. Fruits and Nuts of Warm Regions -- 6. Cereal Grains and Forage Grasses -- 7. Legumes -- 8. Foods from Leaves, Stems, and Roots -- 9. Spices, Herbs, and Perfumes -- 10. Vegetable Oils and Waxes -- 11. Hydrogels, Elastic Latexes, and Resins -- 12. Medicinal Plants -- 13. Psychoactive Drugs and Poisons from Plants -- 14. Stimulating Beverages -- 15. Alcoholic Beverages -- 16. Fibers, Dyes, and Tannins -- 17. Wood, Cork, and Bamboo -- 18. Ornamental Plants -- 19. Algae -- 20. Uses of Plants in the Future.

ISBN

007057569X (acid-free paper) :

LCCN

94033150

OCLC

30976701
ocm30976701

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries