Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . bout ten,fe|t in height, where there is two feet underwater; il^ is ot a triangular form, but the angles arerounded; its thicknefs is about the fizc of a which fills the hand. Tl;e interior iuhftance, althcu-j;h f ft and full offibres, isfoliJ, and of a white colour. By this mea:isthe ftem pjolfeifes a cert-^ja degree of ftrcnjth, and isca;. ai>le ofreliilance. It bends wi
Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . bout ten,fe|t in height, where there is two feet underwater; il^ is ot a triangular form, but the angles arerounded; its thicknefs is about the fizc of a which fills the hand. Tl;e interior iuhftance, althcu-j;h f ft and full offibres, isfoliJ, and of a white colour. By this mea:isthe ftem pjolfeifes a cert-^ja degree of ftrcnjth, and isca;. ai>le ofreliilance. It bends without breaking ; andas it Is extremely li^<ht, it f;rves in fome fort for a cane :The fani« l^I. Poivre ufed no c thcr during a refidenceof fe, eral months at Maclagafear, Th s ftem is not ofequal thkknelb in its whole length ; it tapers frfim the thickeft p^^ to^i. It iswithout knrt3, and exTsrucly fm oth. \:i gr ws out of the wa ers, fimpy tKoif^i-it-is nuuh Imaller, the llcms a:-e Jower, plcino-is compoied o thrca^s, lermlnating at tlie top in three narrow leave:-, a littk Io:ig.:r than thofe /////./. Plate CCCI^XXNT. ^^hc-C^S/r-O^ PAR [ 7^5 1 PAR Ianyras Uiofe at the plume, wlisn ihc plant grows in the wa-ll ter. Il om the bjfe of ihciV iliue Imall knotsrarjcelfus. ^,f fipwers, arranged as they are in the cypcrus ; - knots are n -t elevated abuve the pedicles, theyoccupy the centre ot the three leaves, between are placed, and term ihemfelv€s into a f;nall leaves which Ipring Ironi the and thi lowerpart oitlie Item refenible exactly thole in the pilaiu, wliich the inha )itants call fuH^,grows in great abundance in their rivers and on theirbanks, but particularly in the river Tartas, near theFoul=-poiiit in Madagafcar. inhabitants i f thelecantons ufe the bark ot this plant lor mats; they makiit alfo into fails, into cordage
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