412 DICTIONARY OF POPULAR NAMES TIGER 



tion of milk in cattle. It takes the name Tick Plant from the 

 flat-jointed hispid seed-pods becoming attached to animals and 

 to clothing. Tick Seed is also the name of Corispermum Jiyssopi- 

 folium, an annual of the Chenopod family. 



Tiger Grass {Chamcerops Pdtcliieana), a dwarf fan palm, 

 native of the region between India and Afghanistan, where it is 

 called Maryarri, It is put to all manner of uses by the natives ; 

 fans and mats are made of the leaves, and a strong fibre is 

 obtained from the leaves and stalk by maceration in w^ater. 

 Eopes are made of the inferior fibre, and for sandals the finer 

 kind of fibre is used ; the downy hair of the spathe is used as 

 tinder. The young unexpanded leaves are sweet and astringent, 

 and are considered beneficial in diarrhcea. 



Tiger Wood, a name in British Guiana for the wood of 

 MachcErium Scliomhiorghii, a large tree of the Bean family, pro- 

 ducing the beautifully mottled wood called Itaka, Itiki, or Tiger 

 Wood, used for furniture in that countrv. 



Til. (See Laurel, also Sesamum.) 



Timbee, a Brazilian name for a poisonous honey made by a 

 wasp from the flowers of Serjania letalis, a strong-growing, wing- 

 leaved climber of the Soapberry family (Sapindacea^). Experi- 

 ments have been made with it, and its effect is to produce a sort 

 of drunkenness and delirium, sometimes occasioning death. It 

 is also a fish poison, to which may be added an allied plant, 

 Pcadlinia pinnata, 



Timothy Grass (Phlcum prateTise), a perennial meadow and 

 hay grass, cultivated in this country. 



Tinder, German, a preparation made from Polyporus fomen- 

 tariiis, a large-growing leathery fungus, a foot or more in diameter, 

 growing on trees in this country, but more abundantly in 

 Germany, where it is collected in large quantities, and forms a 

 considerable article of trade. It is cut in slices and beaten out, 

 forming large sheets like thick felt, which is used for warm 

 underclothing, and when mixed with saltpetre forms the sub- 

 stance called Amadou, or German tinder. 



Toadstools, a vulgar name for fleshy fungi represented by 



