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perior to the finest Poland starch, and has been used 

 to starch various articles of dress without imparting 

 any yellow colour to them. 



The method of preparing the starch, is, to take off 

 the shells from the nuts with a knife ; grate them in 

 a vessel of water, which will hold the fine particles 

 of starch suspended, when they are to be decanted 

 into another vessel, which must remain at rest until 

 the starch subsides to the bottom. The water is then 

 poured off, and fresh water added, and the starch 

 well stirred about in it, when it must again be per- 

 mitted to subside. The water is then to be thrown 

 away, and the starch dried in the sun. The water 

 of the first washing holds a poisonous matter in solu- 

 tion, which when evaporated to the consistence of an 

 extract, and mixed with deugh, as above-mention- 

 ed, will intoxicate and swell the bellies of small 

 fish. 



2. M.Jiava^ yellow flowered horse-chesnut, or tall 

 buck eye, ce. octandra of Marshall. This often grows 

 to a pretty large size. It is a native of the western 

 parts of Pennsylvania and Virginia. 



3. j^. alba^ grows in the north-west parts of Geor- 

 gia, and West Florida. 



4. spicatay with white spiked flowers ; it is a 

 dwarf, and was firstfoundby W.Bartram,intheCreek 

 country, and afterwards brought by Mr. Michaux to 

 Mr. B. from Flint river, Georgia. 



5. Dwarf variegated flowered horse-chesnut, found 

 in the Cherokee country by Mr. VV. Bartram. 



The bark of the c:8culu8 hipjiocastanum has been 

 recommended by many writers as a substitute for the 



