Title: Folklore & odysseys of food & medicinal plants
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.
Subjects: Economic Botany, Edible Plants, Folklore, Medicinal plants, Plant introduction, Plants, Botany, medical