Spanning the last 500 years, this exceptionally detailed and well-researched guide focUses primarily on the ways North American Indians have used plants, trees, and shrubs for medicine, food, clothing, shelter, and Other necessities.
Riley, Botany Department, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada..
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Whether on a library\'s Reference shelf or in a backpack along the trail, her work will inform and educate, and often amaze.
She has completed a study of great imagination and energy.
Charlotte Erichsen-brown is a noted and inspired student of the ethnobotany of Eastern North America.
Scholarly, yet readable, exceptionally thorough but never dull, this classic Reference belongs in the library of botanists, naturalists, herbalists, ethnologists, archaeologists -- anyone interested in the long and fascinating story of how plants have served humanity.
Moreover, a detailed line drawing of the plant\'s leaves, buds, twigs, seeds, and Other characteristic features accompanies the textual descriptions.
To make the book especially easy to use, plants are grouped according to habitat: wet open places, woods and thickets, and dry open places.
Thus, accounts of herbalists, explorers, botanists, doctors, and scientists are accompanied by useful information about the plant\'s range, common and scientific names, nontechnical physical description and more.
In addition to extensive chronological Historical citations dealing with documented usages of plants as far back as the fourteenth century, this book also provides data to enable even amateur botanists to identify plants in the field.
The plants considered are native to Eastern Canada and the northEastern United States, although some are also found as far south as Florida and Texas and as far west as the Pacific coast.
Spanning the last 500 years, this exceptionally detailed and well-researched guide focUses primarily on the ways North American Indians have used plants, trees, and shrubs for medicine, food, clothing, shelter, and Other necessities
