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9. Mezereon Family. — a. Nepal paper plant. — b. Lace bark. — c. Leather-wood 

 of North America. 



10. Fir Family. — a. Scotch fir : cones ; leaves ; pine-wool of Germany ; M. 

 Panewitz's patent; shavings and saw dust; Roth's wood^paper ; Hartmann and 

 Schlesinger's wood pulp. — b. Norway spruce fir; Gross' patent.— c. Red Cedar 

 of America. — d. Larch. 



11. Oak Family. — Wood of oak; beech; Spanish chestnut; shavings and 

 saw dust ; " spent tan ; " Horton's patent ; M, Vivien's leaf paper. 



12. Willow Family. — a. Common willow or osier; catkins; bark; wood; 

 Burch's patent. — b. Aspen and black poplar ; shavings and saw dust. 



18. Goosefoot Family. — a. Red and white beet-root ; CoUyer's patent; use of 

 fibre in France. — b. Mangold wurzel ; Irish ptitent. 



14. Cabbage Family. — a. Cabbage and its congeners, — broccoli, cauliflower, 

 &c. ; " kail-runts." — b. Swedish and Aberdeen Turnip ; Irish patent. — c. Mus- 

 tard ; Jeyes' patent. — d. Horse radish ; water cress. 



15. Sedge Family. — a. Papyrus, or bulrush of the Nile. — b. Clubrush. — c. 

 Common Galingale. — d. Cotton grass. 



16. Heather Family. — a. Common ling ; peat in Italy and Germany ; Lalle- 

 mand's and Clarke's Patent. 



17. Potato Family. — Common Potato; " shaws " or stalks; rind and pulp; 

 potato disease no material objection to use of fibre in paper making, 



18. Vine Family. — Common grape vine ; tendrils ; " vine blight" no material 

 objection to use of fibre in paper making. 



19. Iris or Cornfiag Family. — Common yellow water Iris or cornflag ; Irish 

 patent. 



20. Rose Family. — a. Common hawthorn or May. — b. Common bramble. 



21. Crowfoot Family. — Common traveller's joy. 



22. Cucumber Family. — Common bryony, 



23. Bulrush Family. — Common bulrush or re^d mace. 



II. Flowerless Plants — [Cryptogamia.) — Consisting, as they do, wholly, or 

 in great measure, of cellular tissue, may be practically disregarded as fibre- 

 producers. 



1. Fern Family. — Common Bracken Fern ; Captain Brown's Patent. 



2, Horse-tail Family. — Dutch rush ; common ditch horse tail. 

 S. Moss Family. — Bog Moss, &c, 



4. Lichen Family. — Beard Moss, &c. 



5. Seaweed Family. — " Water Flannel." 



The above classification is merely one of convenience, and not botanically 

 accurate. 



The fibre of many of the plants above enumerated is equally suitable for the 

 purposes of the rope spinner, and cloth weaver. 



The Lecture will be illustrated by Specimens of — 1. Papers made from the fibre 

 of a variety of plants, — British and Foreign. — 2. The crude fibres separated from 

 the said plants, and suitable for the purposes of the paper maker, rope spinner, 

 or cloth weaver. — 3. The plants which either yield fibres as above, or which 

 might — under appropriate manipulation — be made to do so. 



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