Folklore & odysseys of food & medicinal plants
By: [by] Ernst and Johanna Lehner.
Contributors: Lehner, Johanna, joint author.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Plants -- Folklore; Plant introduction; Botany, Economic
Description: Many little-known facts are found in this delightfully written account of the therapeutic, magical, exotic, and nutritional uses of plants. The second section of the book, "They Physic Garden," provides a pictorial directory of various herbs, spices, and seeds and relates their medicinal, nutritive, religions, legendary, and symbolic properties.