Abstract
DURING the past three or four years a good deal of interest has been taken in the collection and cultivation of medicinal plants, for the most part by persons who have not enjoyed a botanical training. As a consequence, a desire has been felt for information concerning the properties of medicinal herbs, the uses to which they are put, the means by which they may be identified, their commercial value, and so on. It is for persons thus interested that Dr. Ellis's work is intended; to make it more generally useful he has included certain poisonous plants that are not, or not at present, used medicinally. It may be said at once that his object has been attained. The descriptions of the individual plants are clear and free from undue technicalities; they are accompanied by instructive line-drawings and preceded by two short chapters dealing with the structure of flowers and the physiology of plants.
Medicinal Herbs and Poisonous Plants.
By Dr. David Ellis. Pp. xi + 179. (London: Blackie and Son, Ltd., 1918.) Price 2s. 6d. net.
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Medicinal Herbs and Poisonous Plants . Nature 102, 204–205 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102204b0
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