VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. 



white flowers grow 'on slender foot-stalks on the tops 

 of the branches. These roots are preserved without 

 injury, and even improve by keeping. 



Brazil-wood. C&salpinia crista. 



The Brazil-wood tree, or Casalpinia crista, is 

 an American production, commonly supposed to 

 have been thus named because originally from 

 Brazil. This tree is, however, likewise indigenous to 

 other parts of the world, and was known by the name 

 it at present bears many years before the discovery of 

 Southern America; that portion of the continent 



