THE WILLOW-HEEB. 



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alone, or mixed with cotton, is often woven into 

 stockings, gloves, and such things. The leaves of 

 the rose-bay (E. angustifolia) are used as a substi- 

 tute for, or in the adulteration of, tea ; being added, 

 it is said, in a proportion of twenty-five per cent, 

 to the real tea. Its young root-stalks and suckers 

 are boiled and eaten, and the Kamschatkans make 

 a beer from an infusion of the plant. 



GREAT HAIRY WILLOW-HERB, CODLTNS AND CREAM, 

 Epilobium hirsutum. 



The English name of willow-herb is, probably, 



