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foft, and eat them partly as green cale, and partly 

 in the manner we eat fpinnage. Sometimes they 

 likewife prepare them in the firft of thefe ways, 

 when the ftalks are already grown a little longer, 

 breaking off none but the upper fprouts, which 

 are yet tender, and not woody; but in this latter 

 cafe, great care is to be taken, for if you eat the 

 plant when it is already grown up, and its leaves 

 are no longer foft, you may expedt death as a 

 confequence, which feldom fails to follow 3 for 

 the plant has then got a power of purging the 

 body to excefs. I have known people, who, by eat- 

 ing great full-grown leaves of this plant, have got 

 fuch a ftrong dyfentery, that they were near 

 dying with it : its berries however are eaten in 

 autumn by children, without any ill confequence. 



WOOLLEN and linen cloth is dyed yellow with 

 the bark of hiccory, This likewife is done with 

 the bark of the black oak, or Ltnnczuss ^uercus 

 nigra> and that variety of it which Catejby^ in his 

 Natural Hiflory of 'Carolina, vol. i. tab. 19, calls 

 >uercus marilandica. The flowers and leaves of 

 the Impntiens Noli tangere, or balfarnine, likewife 

 dyed all woollen fluffs with a fine yellow colour. 



THK Collinfoma canadenfis was frequently found 

 in little woods and buflies, in a good rich foil. 

 Mr. Bertram, who knew the country perfefttjr 

 well, was lure that Penfyhania^ and all the parts 

 of America in the fame climate, were the true 

 and original places where this plant grows. For 

 further to the fouth, neither he nor Mefirs, Clay* 

 ton and Mitchel ever found it, though the latter 

 gentlemen have made accurate observations in 

 Virginia and part of Maryland. An from his own 



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