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INDEX. 



PALMETTA fibres, 43. 



straw, 43. 

 Palmite, 43. 

 Pampas grass, 43. 

 Panama hats, 43. 

 Paper fibre plants, 125. 



Adam's needle or banana, 128. 



arrow head, 127. 



aspen, 128. 



atmospheric moisture, 125. 



bamboo, 126. 



Bhabur grass, 128. 



blue moor grass, 126. 



Bodolee sutta, ] 29. 



Canada rice, 129. 



Chinese coir palm, 129. 



Colorado hemp, 129. 



common reed, 125. 



cotton plant bark, 125. 



cotton grass, 129. 



Daphne, Sir J. D. Hooker, 135. 



elephant grass, rt ed mace, 132. 



eryngo fibres, 133. 



esparto or halfa, 136. 



fireweed or groundsel, 133. 



flax and hemp, 127. 



French willow herb, 126. 



goat's rue, 127. 



grass wrack, 126. 



hare's tail cotton grass, 131. 



Hibiscus (lime tree leaved), 134. 



horse radish, 126. 



hop plant, 126. 



Indian corn, 126. 



Jackson, Mr. John R., 128. 



liquorice root, 126. 



maize, 134. 



mallow, common, 127. 



Mamaki bast, 134. 



musk okro, 134. 



fibres, hydrolysis, 134. 



Neamur grass oil, 139. 



needle palm, 135. 



Nepal paper, 135. 



Nipa or Molucca palm, 135. 



ostrich feathergrass, 1:39. 



paper mulberry or tapa cloth, 135. 



papyrus bulrush of the Nile, 137. 



poker plant fibres, 137. 



prairie grass, 137. 



prices of esparto, 131. 



redwood tree, 138. 



reed, common, 138. 



rice paper tetroplauax, 130. 



Roussa grass, 139. 



Routledge, Mr. T., 128. 



seaweeds, 126. 



spruce fir and lime wood, 127. 



straw, 127. 



substitute for esparto, 128. 



sulphate pulp, 139. 



sulphite pulp, 139. 



Paper fibre plants continued. 



swelling thread moss, 131. 



tussock mat grass, 139. 



twitch or couch grass, 126. 



wood pulp, 139. 



wood pulp paper deterioration, 140. 

 -Parao fibre, 44. 

 Pate, Burke & Co., 45. 

 Patwa or Mohwal, 44. 

 Payo or bamboo, 44. 

 Petauelle, 45. 

 Pine apple fibres, 45. 

 Pine cloth, 45. 

 Pinguin fibre, 45. 

 Piripiri fibre, 46. 

 Poor man's flannel, 31. 

 Poplar down, 46. 

 Purumu fibre, 46. 

 Puya fibre, 46. 



RAJMAHAL hemp, 46. 

 Rani eta bast, 46. 

 Ramie fibre, 47. 



commercial factors, 55. 



fibre syndicate, 51. 

 Rattan cane, 55. 



Rere, 56. 



Rhea, length of fibre, 52; wild, 67. 

 Rozelle hemp, 56. 

 Rush -leaved lygeum, 56. 

 Russian mats, 31. 



SACK tree, 56. 

 Sclerenchyma, 32. 

 Screw pine fibre, 58. 

 Screw tree, 59. 

 Sedge, 56. 



Semal cotton, red, 75. 

 Sennegrses, 57. 

 Sida, 34. 



fibre. 58. 

 Silk, 165-178. 



An thersea perny i,yama-mai,mylitta, 



173 ; assami, 174. 

 Atlas moth, 166. 

 Attacus cynthia, cocoon of, 173. 

 Barathea cloth, 177. 

 black mulberry, 171. 

 Bolley, Mr P., on glands of silk- 

 worms, 167. 

 Bombyx, 167 et seq. 



mori from Italy, 171. 

 British and Colonial Silk Company, 



165. 



Burmese silkworm, 166. 

 Castor oil plant, 166. 

 chemical affinity for colours, 182. 

 Chinese Tussur, silkworm, 166. 

 Cobb, Mr. F. C., on distinguishing 



silk, 181. 



Cocoons, four species, 173. 

 calcined, 176. 



