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also made of Hemp prepared in a peculiar way with 

 sulphur, which gives it a silky gloss. 



The branches or stalks of common broom, when 

 dried in the sun, and treated like Hemp, produce 

 threads which may be spun, and worked into a coarse 

 cloth. In the country they are made into besoms, 

 from this, its familiar use, Linnaeus has derived the 

 specific name of this species, and called it spartium 

 scoparium? sweeping-broom. 



From the seeds of Hemp an oil is extracted. The 

 seeds themselves are reckoned good food for poultry, 

 and are supposed to occasion hens to lay a greater 

 quanty of eggs. Small birds., in general, are very 

 fond of them, but they should be given to caged birds 

 with caution, and mixed with other seeds. 



A very singular effect is recorded, on good autho- 

 rity, to have been sometimes produced by feeding 

 Bullfinches and Goldfinches on hemp-seed alone, or 

 in too great quantity : that of changing the red and 

 yellow on those birds to total blackness. 



The Hop plant is the only British genus of this 

 Order of which Botanists make but one species. Hu- 

 mulus lupulus. 



ORDER 6". 



BLACK BRYONY. Of this °;enus there are nine- iilxan- 

 teen species* but this alone is common in shady 

 duckets, hedges and woods, in most parts of England, 

 and blossoms in June. The root is somewhat black ex- 

 ternally, whence its ancient name Bryonia nigra, and 



Six Stamina. 



