LEATHER WOOD, 1459 
count of the tenacity of its fibres it is difficult of 
subdivision, After beating ina mortar it resem- 
bles fine lint more than powder. Its vesicating 
properties appear too feeble to. —_— maoh 
utility. : 
I have introduced the Direni in ‘this alse. not 
so much because it has been yet applied to any 
medical purpose of great importance; but be- 
cause it would be improper, in a work like the 
present, to pass over unnoticed a shrub of such 
decided, activityecd eed evitl at to silt oA P 
ate 
BOTANICAL REFERENCES. — 
“ninea palustris, Li ‘dhanitides academicer, i iii. 7 1 6. _ gas 
Dvwamen, rb. vi. t, 212.—Pursn, i. 236,—Mrenavx, i. 268,— 
Bartram, Travels, 309.—Kaum, Travels, ii. 148. _ neni 
MEDICAL seer dcg a 
B.S. Barrow, Coll, 32. ere 
‘PLATE XXXVI 
Fig. 1 1 1 branch with lowers  Rirva poles, 
Fig. 2. A branch in Nite 
+O Rig, 3. Fruit. 
| Bigs 4. Germ and style much magnified. 
higei a Fig. 5. Magnified corolla, laid open. 
Fig. 6. Flower magnified. 
