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Important medicinal plants of Florida.

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Date Issued:
1965
Summary:
This book was written in response to the continued interest of Floridians in growing or collecting medicinal plants for possible profit, an interest that is due in part to an awareness of the advantages of Florida's climate. The scope is limited to those plants that are used in medicine in commercial quantities or have potentialities as such. The intent is to furnish sufficient information to enable one to recognize, collect, and prepare plant parts as crude drugs or botanicals.
Title: Important medicinal plants of Florida.
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Name(s): Johnson, C. H. (Carl Henry), 1906-
Florida Dept. of Agriculture.
PALMM (Project)
Type of Resource: text
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1965
Date Issued: 1965
Date Issued: 1965
Publisher: Dept. of Agriculture
Place of Publication: Tallahassee, [Fla.]
Physical Form: electronic resource
Extent: iv, 51 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language(s): eng
Summary: This book was written in response to the continued interest of Floridians in growing or collecting medicinal plants for possible profit, an interest that is due in part to an awareness of the advantages of Florida's climate. The scope is limited to those plants that are used in medicine in commercial quantities or have potentialities as such. The intent is to furnish sufficient information to enable one to recognize, collect, and prepare plant parts as crude drugs or botanicals.
Table of Contents: Introduction -- Alder -- Aloe -- American wormseed -- Ammi Visnaga -- Bitter orange peel -- Black haw -- Blessed thistle -- Borage-- Butterfly root -- Cajuput oil -- Calendula -- Camphor -- Capsicum -- Cassia fistula -- Castor beans -- Catnip -- Chionanthus -- Coriander -- Cotton -- Deertongue -- Dill -- Dioscorea -- Eupatorium -- Galanga -- Gelsemium -- Ginger -- Ginseng -- Iris versicolor -- Mullein -- Orange oil -- Passion flower -- Peppermint -- Periwinkle -- Pine oil -- Pine tar -- Poke root -- Pomegranate -- Prickly ash -- Psyllium -- Rauwolfia -- Sanguinaria -- Sassafras -- Saw palmetto -- Sesame -- Squaw vine -- Stillingia -- Storax -- Stramonium -- Tamarind -- Turpentine -- Vetiver -- Wild cherry -- Minor medicinal plants.
Target Audience: general
Identifier: 49838470 (oclc), AAA3373 QF, 977468 (digitool), uf:104927 (fedora), UF00002958 (IID)
Note(s): by C.H. Johnson.
"Important medicinal plants of Florida replaces the bulletin Collection and cultivation of medicinal plants of Florida by Dr. B. V. Christensen."
Electronic reproduction. [Florida] : Board of Education, Division of Colleges and Universities, PALMM Project, 2001. Mode of Access: World Wide Web. System Requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software; Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print PDF files. Electronically reproduced from Collection in George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida. Date Issued has [1965?]
Subject(s): Botany, Medical
Botany -- Florida
Medicinal plants -- Florida
Pharmacognosy
Plants, Medicinal
Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Florida
Florida -- 12000
Library Classification: QK100 .J66
Library Classification: QK99 .J54 1967
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/UF00002958.pdf
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/UF00002958.jpg
Host Institution: UF
Other Format:
(OCoLC)05593807
Is Part of Series: Bulletin (Florida. Dept. of Agriculture) New ser. ; no. 14.