New Plant Sources for Drugs and Foods from the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium

by Siri von Reis and Frank J. Lipp Jr.

This companion volume to Siri von Reis's previous exploration of ethnobotanical notes in the Harvard herbaria brings to light a new array of plants with drug or food potential, offering wide-ranging possible applications for pharmacologists, chemists, botanists, and even anthropologists. Following the same criteria as in earlier investigations, the authors have examined the vast holdings of The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium to select little-known...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674617657
• ISBN13: 9780674617650
• Release Date: December 1982
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"