446 DICTIONARY OF POPULAR NAMES YELLOW 



ing dougli in. bread-making. For this purpose the yeast is 

 dried and formed into a cake or paste, known as German 

 Yeast. 



Yellow Berries. {See Buckthorn.) 



Yellow Iris (Iris Pscudacorus), and Gladwin, or Eoast-beef 

 Plant (C fcetidissima), of the family Iridacese, two beautiful 

 species, natives of this country, growing in ditches, and on the 

 margins of ponds and streams. The seeds of the first are said 

 to have been used as a substitute for coffee. (See Iris.) 



Yellow-root (Xanthorhiza a;piifoha), a low shrub of the 

 Buttercup family (Eanunculace^e), seldom exceeding 2 feet in 

 height, having parsley -like leaves and inconspicuous flowers. 

 It is a native of the South United States of America. Its roots 

 are of a pale yellow, and were originally employed as a dye. 

 They are bitter, and have some reputation with American 

 doctors as a tonic. 



Another North American Yellow-root is Hydrastis cana- 

 densis, which is also called Yellow Puccoon and Orange-root ; it 

 is a perennial of the same family as the above, about a foot in 

 height, with palmate-lobed leaves, and inconspicuous flowers ; 

 its fruit is similar to the raspberry, its juicy flesh being of a 

 bright crimson colour. The root is a briglit yellow, and used 

 as a dye, and also as a tonic medicine. 



YeUow-wood, a name apphed in different countries to trees 

 having wood of a yellow colour. Different species of the genus 

 JCanthoxylmn, which means yellow- wood, are so called. 



YeUow-wood, American (Virgilia hitea), a tree of the Bean 

 family (Leguminosae), native of North America. It has winged 

 leaves, and attains a height of 40 to 50 feet. The wood is hard. 

 Its yellow flowers and winged leaves make it an ornamental tree, 

 but it seldom exceeds 10 to 12 feet in height in this country. 



YeUow-wood, Indian (Podocarpus latifolia and Okloroxylori 

 Swietenia). (See Satin-wood.) 



YeUow-wood, Moreton Bay (Acronychia Imvis, Forst, ; 

 Cyminosma dblongifolium, Cunn.), a small tree of the family 

 XanthoxyUacese, native of Moreton Bay. 



