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on account of its dying quality. It grows in woody, 
moift places, in a fine foil. Kalm obferves, “ that 
c£ the roots of this plant are employed by the In- 
“ dians in dying the quills of the American Por- 
8C cupine red, which they put into feveral places of 
s ‘ their work : air, fun, and water, feldom change 
“ this colour. The French women in Canada 
u fometimes dye their cloth red with thefe roots, 
“ which are but final!, like thofe of the Galiunl 
5£ luteum or yellow bedftraw.” 
Dr. Linnaeus defcribes this plant, as having fix 
harrow linear leaves at each knot of the flem, and 
Four at the branches; commonly two flowers are cn 
each ftalk, and its feeds are finooth. The roots, 
when dry, are of the thicknefs of a crow quill, brown 
on the outfide, and of a bright purple red, when 
broken, on the infide. 
The fecond plant, or the Tifavoyanne jaune, is 
according to Prof. Kalm, vol. iii. p. 160. tc the 
te threeleaved Hellebore ( Helleborus trifolius Linn.) 
S£ grows plentifully in woods, in mofly, not too wet, 
“ places. Its leaves and flalks are employed by the 
“ Indians to dye yellow feveral kinds of their work, 
“ made of prepared fkins. The French learned 
from them to dye wool and other things yellow 
t£ with this plant.” 
Among the roots fent as a fpecimen from Hudfon’s- 
bay, I found feveral leaves, which I feparated, and 
found the plant undoubtedly to be the threeleaved 
Hellebore. 
In the 4th vol. of Dr. Linnaeus’s Amcenitates 
Academics is a figure of this plant, which upon 
comparifon I found by no means to be accurate : for 
the 
