Penjylvaniay Philadelphia, i<)j 



none but the upper fprouts which are yet ten- 

 der, and not woody ; but in this latter cafe, 

 great care is to be taken, for if you eat the 

 plant when it is already grown up, and its 

 leaves are no longer foft, you may expecft 

 death as a confequence which feldom fails 

 to follow, for the plant has then got a 

 power of purging the body to excefs. I 

 have known people, who, by eating great 

 full grown leaves of this plant, have got 

 fuch a ftrong dyfentery, that they were near 

 dying with it : its berries however are eat- 

 en in autumn by children, without any ill 

 confequence. 



Woollen and linen cloth is dyed yel- 

 low with the bark of hiccory. This like- 

 wife is done with the bark of the black 

 oak, or Linnaus's ^ercus nigra, and that 

 variety of it which Catefiy in his Natural 

 Hijiory of Carolina, vol. i. tab. 19. calls 

 ^ercus marilandica. The flowers and leaves 

 of the Impatiens Noli tangere or balfamine, 

 likewife dyed all woollen fluffs with a fine 

 yellow colour. 



The Collinfonia canadenjis was frequently 

 found in little woods and bufhes, in a good 

 rich foil. Mr. Bar tram who knew the coun- 

 try perfeftly well, was fure that Penjyha- 

 nia, and all the parts of America in the 

 fame climate, were the true and original 

 places where this plant grows. For further 

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