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fishermen make ropes of the inner bark, but hard 

 necessity has taught the Laplanders and Kamschat- 

 dales to convert it into bread. To effect this, in 

 spring they strip off the outer bark carefully from 

 the kindest trees, and collect the soft white succu- 

 lent interior bark-, and dry it in the shade. When 

 they have occasion to use it, they first toast it at the 

 fire, then grind it, and after steeping the flour in 

 warm water, to take off the resinous taste, they make 

 it into thin cakes and bake them. Linnaeus remarks, 

 that this bark bread will fatten swine; and that the 

 boys in Sweden frequently peel off the bark in the 

 spring, and eat it raw with a greedy appetite. 



Of the Genus Pinus, Professor Martyn makes 

 twenty-one species, but this tribe of plants has not 

 yet been well investigated. The Norfolk Island 

 Pine, Dombeya excelsa, is the loftiest tree known. 

 According to Governor Phillip, it is commonly from 

 lGO to 180 feet in height, and Governor King 

 measured one which was 228 feet high and eleven 

 feet in diameter. 



The two remaining Orders, g and 10, of this Class, 

 Polyadelphia and Gynandria, if not abolished, re- 

 quire reformation. 



