Archive image from page 298 of A descriptive catalogue of useful. A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world, including the structural and economic classifications of fibers descriptivecatal09dodg Year: 1897 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 291 Sarkara, Sanscrit name for sugar. Schcenus nigricans. An European species of sedge grass that is used in Italy for rough ropes. S. melanostachys is a Queensland species, the culms of which are used in basket manu- facture. Scirpus lacustris. The Bulrush. Mat Bush. A tall sedge abounding in ponds and swamps throughout North America; com- mon in E
Archive image from page 298 of A descriptive catalogue of useful. A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world, including the structural and economic classifications of fibers descriptivecatal09dodg Year: 1897 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 291 Sarkara, Sanscrit name for sugar. Schcenus nigricans. An European species of sedge grass that is used in Italy for rough ropes. S. melanostachys is a Queensland species, the culms of which are used in basket manu- facture. Scirpus lacustris. The Bulrush. Mat Bush. A tall sedge abounding in ponds and swamps throughout North America; com- mon in Europe, northern Asia,, Australia, and some of the Pacific islands. Known in Italy as Giunco da stuoie; in Hawaii as Akaahai. (See fig. 95.) Structural Fiber.—The entire stem is used in many parts of the world for mats and mattings. Among the curious and interesting objects manufactured from this sedge grass are baskets, beehives, horse collars, etc.; in England, shoes, used in Denmark when thrashing buckwheat to prevent crushing the grain; packsaddles, in Guernsey, for conveying 'wrack ' from the seashore. The Kew Mus. exhibits a great coat made from this rush, in Portugal. A variety of the species, occidentalis, is the Tule of the Pacific Coast. Used in California as cases for the protection of wine bottles packed for shipment, just as straw covers are used for the same purpose in Europe. See also Eleocharis palasiris. The Yokuts of the Tulare Lake region of Cali- fornia construct very rude, frail punts, or mere troughs of Tule, about 10 feet long, in which they cruise timidly about the Tulare Lake, near the shore. (Stephen Powers.) Specimens of Tule, Mus. U. S. Dept. Ag. Screw pine (see Pandanus). Scriptural fibers (see Introduction, Ancient Uses of Fibers). Sea rush (or coast rush). Juncus mari- timus. Sea mallow. Lavatera maritima. Sea mat grass. Sea reed and sea-sand grass. See Ammophila. Seaside grass. Cyperus tegetum. Fig. 95.—The Bulrush, Scirpus Seaweeds. ucustHs.
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