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USEFUL FIBER PLANTS OF THE WORLD. 



nation '■ Fibras palmiche oscuro, Enocarpus utilis " (= (Enocarpus). In my examination 

 of the COsta Rican fibers for award tlio specimen was not found. 



Euterpe oleracea et sp. div. 



Dorca mentions tliree species tliat inhabit Fern, E. oleracea, E. edulis, and E. ensi- 

 formis, all of which yield a liber useful for ropes and coarse textures. Orton men- 

 tions E. oleracea as occurring on the Amazon, known as the Jitssareira. Agassiz refers 

 to a Brazilian species as the Assais, and the Treasury of Botany gives, as the com- 

 mon name of E. edulis, "The Assai Palm of Para." The 

 beverage manufactured from this species is also known 

 as A ssa i. ( See fi g. 55 . ) 



Evening primrose fiber (see Gaura . 



False sisal hemp (Flu. . Sec Agave de- 

 cipiens. 



Falseh (Pers.). See Grewia. 



Fatsia papyrifera. The Rice Paper Plant. 



Syn. Aralia papyrifera. 

 Endogen. Araliacece. A small tree. 

 " This plant grows in the deep, swampy forests of the 

 Island of Formosa, and apparently there only, forming 

 a small tree, branching in the upper part, the younger 

 portions of the stem, together with the leaves and inflo- 

 rescence, covered with copious stellate down. The stems 

 are filled with pith of very fine texture, and white as 

 snow, which, when cut, forms the article known as rice 

 paper. Large quantities of the stems are 'taken in 

 native crafts from Formosa to Ckinchew, where they are 

 cut into thin sheets for the manufacture of artificial 

 flowers.' A lengthened account of this interesting plant 

 will be found in Hooker's Journal of Botany." (Dr. 

 Thomas Moore.) 



Fig. 55.— The Assai, Euterpe 

 oleracea. 



Fern. 



Tree 

 Hair - 



SeeCiboHnm. sourceofPulu liber; Maiden 



— (see Ad'uutiiim). 



Fe-ru (Afr.). Silk Cotton. 



See Cochlosper- 



m urn tinctorium. 

 Laportea crenulata. 



Fever Nettle 

 Fiber. 



See Introduction. The classes of fibers recognized in this work are Bast, Struc- 

 tural, Surface, Woody, and Pseudo-liber. 



Fibras palmiche oscuro (Cost. Ei.). See Euterpe. 

 Fibrilia. 



A textile material made by " cottonizing " the fibers of flax, hemp, jute, China 

 grass, and similar vegetable substances, as a substitute for cotton. Fibrilia from 

 flax is a form of "flax cotton" (so called). The account of an inquiry by the United 

 States Government into the practicability of the establishment of a "flax-cotton" 

 industry will be found in the Report of the Flax and Hemp Commission of 18fi3 

 (U. S. Dept. Ag., Washington, 1865), but now out of print 

 & Co., Boston, 1861 



See Fibrilia, L. Burnett 

 See also Uses of Flax under Linum mitatissimum. 



