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I have inserted the following, as being known to contain the different colours mentioned; but there are many other plants equally productive of this principle that remain quite unnoticed at present. ACANTHUS mollis. BEAR'S-BREECH. This gives a fine yellow, which was in use among the ancients. ACTAEA spicata. BANEBERRY. The juice of the berries affords a deep black, and is fixed with alum.
There is the bear's-breech, from its roughness, a name transferred by some mistake from the Acanthus to the cow-parsnip, and the bear's-wort, which it has been suggested "is rather to be derived from its use in uterine complaints than from the animal."
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