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enquiry, what the particular species of grass is which 

 is thus in request with these people, as some use one 

 sort, and some another. It is, however, always a 

 species of Carex, and we understood, chiefly this." 



PxlPER MULBERRY TREE, is a native of enter* 



Japan and the South Sea islands. From the bark of pour wma 



this tree the inhabitants of Japan and China make 



their paper, and in those countries the tree is cultivated 



for that purpose, much after the same manner as 



osiers are cultivated with us, by cutting down the 



young shoots in December, after the fall of the 



leaf. 



The young bark, when the outer rind is taken off, is 

 boiled in a lye till it will readily split into fibres, it is 

 then washed in pure water, and beaten into a pulp; 

 after which, with an infusion of rice, and a mucous 

 water prepared for that purpose, the pulp is made of 

 a due consistency, and paper is manufactured from it. 



The finest and whitest cloth worn by the prin- 

 cipal people of Otaheite, and the Sandwich Islands, 

 is made of the bark of this tree. 



The juice of the Paper Mulberry is used in China 

 as a glue, for gilding either paper or leather, but not 

 wood. 



COMMON ARROW-HEAD, so called from the 0r dcr 7 . 

 shape of its leaf. This plant is one of the most beau- S" JJj 

 tiful ornaments of our rivers, pools, and ditches. The In4e nitc * 

 individual flowers are of short duration , but there is 



