. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. â¢J'. ' 1 i â i h fprti ' 'i 154 OSiober 1748. foft, and cat them partly as green cale, and partly in the manner we eat fpinnage. Sometimes they likewife prepare them in t
. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. â¢J'. ' 1 i â i h fprti ' 'i 154 OSiober 1748. foft, and cat them partly as green cale, and partly in the manner we eat fpinnage. Sometimes they likewife prepare them in the firft of thefc ways, when the ftalks are already grown a little longer, breaking off none but the upper fprouts, wMch are yet tender, and not woody; but in this latter cafe, great care is to be taken, for if you eat the plant when it is already grown up, and its leaves are no longer foft, you may expcdt death as a confequence, which feldom fails to follow; for the plant has then got a power of purging the body to excefs, I have known people, who, by eat- ing great full-grown leaves of this plant, have got fuch a ftrong dyfentery, that they were near dying with it: its berries however arc eaten in autumn by children, without any ill confequence. Woollen and linen cloth is dyed yellow with the bark of hiccory. This likewife is done with the bark of the biack oaky or Linnaus*s ^erm nigrai and that variety of it which Catejby, in his Natural Hijlory of Carolina^ vol. i. tab. 19, calls f^uerats marilattdica. The flowers and leaves of the Tmpatiem Noli tangere, pr balfamir^^, likewiic dyed all woollen ftyfFs with a fine yellow colour. The CoUinfonia cmadenfis was frequently foun^ in little woods and bufhes, in a good rich \ Mr. Bartramy who knew the country perfeftlj well, was hr^ thsLt Penjyhaniay and all thepartij oij^erica in the fame climate, were the tnii and original places where this plant grows. Fori further to the ibuth, neither he nor MeiTrs. Cla^^ ton and Mitchel eve
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