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A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world : including the structural and economic classifications of fibers . heseseeds into snuffboxes, scent bottles, spoons, etc., and in the Indian bazaars they areused as weights. (J. Smifh.) Entelea arborescens. Exogeu. TiUacea: A small tree, 5 to 10 feet. Found in New Zealand, where the light wood of the tree is used T)y the natives asfloats for their nets. Fiber.—From the cortical tiber are made ropes, cords, and fishing nets{Savorgnan). E. palmata is aNew Holland species, also included in the Manual Hoepli. Envira. This word, wit
A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world : including the structural and economic classifications of fibers . heseseeds into snuffboxes, scent bottles, spoons, etc., and in the Indian bazaars they areused as weights. (J. Smifh.) Entelea arborescens. Exogeu. TiUacea: A small tree, 5 to 10 feet. Found in New Zealand, where the light wood of the tree is used T)y the natives asfloats for their nets. Fiber.—From the cortical tiber are made ropes, cords, and fishing nets{Savorgnan). E. palmata is aNew Holland species, also included in the Manual Hoepli. Envira. This word, with an atfix, occurs manytimes in a catalogue of Avoods exhibitedl)y the State of Amazon, Brazil, at theW. C. E., 1893, Chicago, as a commonname for certain trees that yield fiber. Examplesare: dianta, furnishes a resistant fiber, though little used; prvta (or the black envira), the twigs of young plants serve for lishingpoles, also has a fiber of resistant <iual- ity; jiixiina and suruciicii, the same; taia, or tjueimoza, •thick fibrous bark; de iijapo, • inner bark holds the best known fiberlor cords. See Epicampes macroura. lioOT. Broom Endogen. (iraminea\ A grass, 6 to 7 feet. (See fig. 52.)Common and native names.—Broom root, Mexican whisk, liaizdeZacnton (^lex.); Chiendent (Fr.).Broom root, or zacatou, is a wild plantwhich grows in profusion on the highplains included in Huamantla, San .-(ires, Chalchicomula, Perote, and SanFelipe del Obraza, and other localitiesof Mexico having a cold climate. Itnot only was not cultivated, but export made it of commercial impor-tance proprietors of ])lantations were atconsiderable expense to rid their fields of the weed. In 1884 it was exported exclu-sively from Vera Cruz, and in five years its exportation auiouuted to 1,763,680 1889 it was stated by M. Chas. Baur that a Frenchman was producing zacatou ona plantation upon the slojies of the Pojjocatapetl and the Yxtaeihuatl, with a payroll of .~)00
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