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green, and more glossy and bright than those of the orange. 
The blossoms are greenish ; and the fruit is about the shape 
and size of a large orange, but the surface much rougher than 
that fruit. In the south, we are told, it assumes a deep yel- 
low colour, and, at a short distance, strikingly resembles the 
common orange : the specimens of fruit which we have seen 
growing in Philadelphia, did not assume that fine colour ; 
but the appearance of the tree laden with it, is not unlike 
that of a large orange tree. It was first transplanted into 
our gardens from a village of the Osage tribe of Indians, 
whence the common name of Osage orange. The introduc- 
tion of this tree was one of the favourable results of Lewis 
and Clarke’s Expedition. It was named by the min honour 
of the late Wm. Maclure, Esq. President of the American 
Academy of Natural Sciences. 
The wood is fine grained, yellow in colour, and takes a 
brilliant polish. It is also very strong and elastic, and on 
this account the Indians, of the wide district to which this 
tree is indigenous, employ it extensively for bows, greatly 
preferring it to any other timber. Hence its common name, 
among the white inhabitants, is Bodac , a corruption of the 
term bois d’arc, ( bow-wood ,) of the French settlers. A fine 
yellotv dye is extracted from the wood, similar to that of the 
Fustic. 
As the Osage orange belongs to the monoecious class of 
plants, it does not perfect its fruit, unless both the male 
and female trees are growing in the same neighbourhood. 
Many have believed the fruit to be eatable, both from its fine 
appearance, and from its affinity with, and resemblance to 
that of the bread-fruit ; but all attempts to render it pleasant, 
either cooked or in a raw state, have hitherto failed : it is 
therefore probably inedible, though not injurious. Perhaps 
