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which they make with their thick bushing and climing: as also for the beautie of 
the flowers, and the pleasant scent or savour of the sameand, by country 
people, Old-man s-beard, from the hoary appearance of the silky, elongated style's. 
The trivial name from Fitis alba (white Vine). 
The branches are sufficiently tough to make withs for faggots, for which 
purpose it is always used in the woods where it can be procured. Besides the 
claspers with which it is furnished, the very leaves have a tendency to twine 
around plants. The hairy plumes, growing in clusters, exhibit in Winter a 
singular and beautiful appearance over the tops of bushes, hedges, &c. It is 
particularly well adapted for covering arbours and bowers in pleasure-grounds, 
being of a rapid growth and hardy. “ The tubes, lymph-ducts, and air-vessels 
of this plant, appear in a common magnifier beautifully arranged, being large, 
and admitting the air freely to circulate through them. Our village boys avail 
themselves of this circumstance, cut off a long joint from a dry branch, light it, 
and use it as their seniors do the tobacco-pipe; hence they call it f Smoke-wood/ 
The pores are well seen by drawing some bright-coloured liquid into them.’*' 
Journ . of a Nat., p. 110. The long feathery down attached to the seed may 
often be found at the entrance of holes made by Mice; probably dragged there as 
a valuable material for their nests; as may be the seeds themselves (though 
small, abundant), no unimportant accession to the Winter store. In France, 
the common beggars, to excite compassion, produce ulcers by applying the juice to 
the skin; and the twigs are there used to make Bee-hives, baskets, &c., possibly 
in a warmer climate growing even larger and stronger than with us. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Geological Maps of Counties. 
To the Editor of the Naturalist 
Sir, — * * * * Your inquiry respecting county maps, coloured geologically, 
will be best answered by a reference to the list of Mr. Cary’s publications, in 
which all the particulars regarding the only maps of the kind, yet published, 
will be found. They are all the works of Wm. Smith. I do not at present 
propose to execute anything of this nature, though some proposals on the subject 
have been made to me. There are upwards of twenty English counties published 
