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Structural Fiber. — Dr. Havard states in Garden and Forest, 1890, p. 619, that 

 the New England Indians, especially the Penobscots, make an extensive use of the 

 holy grass (Hicrochloe borcalis). Its long, radical leaves become strongly involute 

 in drying, forming flexible threads, which are braided into line strips, and these are 

 woven into baskets and other pretty fancy work. He has also found braids of the 

 holy grass in a camp of the Crow Indians on the Yellowstone, but did not learn how 

 they were used. The delicate and lasting fragrance of the dried leaves gives them 

 an additional and perhaps not their least merit. 



Higucion (Peru). See Ficus gigantea. 



Hik-gas (Ind.). See Odina ivodier. 



Hilaria jamesii. Black Bunch Grass. 



Endogen. Graminece. A stiff grass, 12 to 18 inches. 



Common and Indian names. — Black bunch grass, Guyetta, Gietta; Hopi 

 (Moqui) Indian, " Takachii; from taka, man, culiii, a wiry grass ; the male cUliii" 

 (Feivlces). 

 A rather coarse perennial, with creeping rootstocks, and stems 12 to 18 inches high. 

 It is common on the dry mesas of New Mexico and Arizona, extending eastward into 

 Texas and Indian Territory. Where abundant it is regarded as one of the most valu- 

 able native grasses and furnishes excellent pasturage at all times when not covered 

 with snow, and is frequently cut for hay. (F. Lamson-Scribner.) 



Structural Fiber. — The grass which the Hopi Indians assume to be the female 

 ciihit or H. jamesii, is used by the women in making the coil trays described under 

 the title Yucca glauca, which see. These coil trays, called poota, are a famous 

 Tusayan manufacture. (See fig. 64.) 



Himalayan bamboo (see Arundinaria falcata). 

 Hkaw-ma of Liotard (Burm.). Linum usitatissimum, 

 Hoa-ko-chu (China). See Broussonetia. 

 Hoheria populnea. Ribbonwood of Otago. 



Exogen. Malvaceae. A tree. 

 A New Zealand species, resembling the Aspen. "The delicate lace-like bast from 

 its young branches, being strong and glossy, might be used for other purposes than 

 matting and string." (Dr. Gnilfoyle.) 



Hollyhock fiber (see Althaea rosea). 

 Hollyhock tree. Hibiscus splendens. 

 Holostemma rheedianum. 



Exogen. Asclepiadacew. Climber. 

 A native East Indian species, said by Royle to yield a fair fiber that is in best con- 

 dition after the rains. Watt says, "A fiber about which very little information' is 

 available." It has been described as pure and silky and adapted to cordage and 

 paper making. 



Honckenya ficifolia. Bolo-bolo. 



Exogen. TiHacece. 



Specimens of fiber of this species were sent to the Royal Kew Gardens in 1888 from 

 Lagos, west coast of Africa; known as Bolo-bolo in the Popo vernacular, and Agbon- 

 rin-Ilassa in Yaruba. 



We consider this a very valuable fiber of the jute class, but distinctly superior 

 to the latter in many respects, and more particularly in strength. It is of good 

 length and well cleaned. If this fiber is capable of being produced in large quanti- 

 ties there is a very wide field open to it commercially. Its market value would be 



