4oo Mr. CuTLER's Account of indigenous Vegetables, 
» Thefe natives were, likewife, poficfied of the art of dyeing 
deep and moft permanent black, red and yellow colours. . Thefe 
colours were given to bone, horn, porcupine quills and other 
hard fubftances, which ftill appear, unimpaired, on fome of their 
ornaments andutenfils. The Spaniards are {aid to- have procur- 
ed-from the. Californian Indians, the art. of dyeing: the beft black 
ever yet known. The plant. they employ, inthis dye is called 
the-cafcalote,.a {mall fhrub, which . abounds in that country, 
and may. probly be found within the. limits Of. the United 
etate shea edic bai 
Joweve: ERIN se dien c our ar vegetable. produc- 
tions: may be, jur progrefs:muft be flow, until men, verfed in 
this fcience,.can devote their time to the inveftigation. of them. 
Spine, advances may be made by. individuals collecting the pro- 
du s of their own neighbourhood, and tranfmitting. accounts 
= Ben from-tume to time, to the Academy. . ‘How mych A 
correfpondence of this kind has done, in perfecting the hiftory 
of the Briti/h plants, will appear from. the numerous botanical 
papers publithed i in the. tranfa&ions of the Royal Society. 
_. As there has. neyer been a defcription given. of the indigenous 
plants in. this part of the country, and it being one of the ends 
of the inititution of this Academy to promote the knowledge 
| iof natural biflory,..I take the liberty of communicating an ac- 
count of fome.of thofe which have fallen under my obícrvation. 
‘They. are arranged according to: the Linnean íyftem ; and the 
generic Characters, where they were found to correfpond, are re- 
„ferred to Linneus s deferi iption.in the fifth edition of f his Genera 
Plantarum.: -The characters of the fpecies, where there was an 
agreement, . are taken from the tenth edition of the. Syffema 
Natur. s bh . few. rapa E from. other authors are given, and 
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