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down in spring for want of strength the people tie a branch of 

 this tree to their necks thinking it will help them." When pow- 

 dered it has been used as a dentifrice, and a bunch of the smaller 

 twigs has been found by the Virginian negroes an efficient tooth 

 brush. The bark steeped with iron sulphate makes a good black 

 ink, and from the bark of the smaller roots a scarlet dye was made 

 by the Indians. The wood is very hard, of fine texture and 

 prized for turning and for tool handles. 



BUNCHBEEBT. 



Flowering plant, X V2. 



BUNCHBERRY. Coriius Canadensis L. 



This is often also called the dwarf cornel since it is the only 

 one of so dwarf a size. Indeed it scarcely seems proper to call 

 this a woody plant at all, inasmuch as only the slender creeping 



