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imported into this country for the purpose of dyeing woven 

 fabrics, especially English Bandana handkerchiefs. 



Canada Balsam. {See Balm of Gilead Fir.) 



Canadian Rice {Zizania aqimtica), a floating grass growing 

 in lakes in Canada and some parts of the United States. Canoes 

 are employed in collecting the gi'ain, which forms a staple 

 article of food for the Indian tribes, and also for the white man, 

 and is considered more nutritious than ordinary rice {Oryza 

 sativa). The stems are used for making paper. Some years ago 

 its cultivation was attempted in the fens of Lincolnshire, with 

 the intention of popularising it as a food for the poor, but it 

 failed. 



Canary Flower {Tro^ceolum peregrinum), an annual of the 

 Indian Cress family (Tropseolaceae). It is a native of New 

 Grenada, and is a favourite arbour plant in this country, pro- 

 ducing numerous very showy yellow flowers. 



Canary Seed {Phalaris canariensis), an upright annual 

 grass 2 to 2 J feet high, a native of this country, but rare. It 

 is cultivated chiefly in East Kent for the sake of its seeds, 

 which are used for feeding cage-birds. It is also largely im- 

 ported from Barbary, Turkey, and Holland. 



Canary Wood, the name of the wood of Fersea indica 

 and P. canariensis, fine evergreen trees of the Laurel family 

 (Lauracete), natives of the Canary Islands and Madeira. 



Candle Nut (Aleurites triloba), a tree of the Spurgewort 

 family (Euphorbiacese), about 30 feet high, with simple lobed 

 leaves, native of most warm countries throughout India, Malay, 

 Japan, and the whole of the islands of the Pacific Ocean, where 

 it is cultivated for the sake of its fruit, which is about 2 inches 

 in diameter, and contains a hard nut, which has the fiavour of a 

 walnut, and yields a large quantity of oil, which is extensively 

 used in many of the Polynesian islands. In the Hawaiian 

 group the entire kernels are strung on a stick, and lighted as a 

 candle ; this is also done in India, where the oil is much used. 

 It is imported into this country for candle-making, and is said 

 to be equal to sesame or rape oils. 



