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RESEDA Luteola. DYER'S WEED, or WELD. The most usual plant from which the yellow dye is extracted. For its culture, see p. 32. RHAMNUS Frangula. BUCKTHORN. The bark produces a slight yellow, and the unripe berries impart to wool a green colour. RHAMNUS catharticus. PURGING BUCKTHORN. The bark yields a most beautiful yellow colour; and the ripe berries in the autumn produce a brilliant scarlet.
A syrup and jelly of the fruit, and mucilage of the seeds, used to be kept in the shops. QUEROUS pedunculata. OAK. Bark. L. E. D. This bark is a strong astringent; and hence stands recommended in haemorrhagies, alvine fluxes, and other preternatural or immoderate secretions. RHAMNUS catharticus. BUCKTHORN. Berries.
This is a neat-growing species, with greenish flowers and black fruit. R. CATHARTICUS, Common Buckthorn, is a native, thorny species, with ovate and stalked leaves, and small, thickly clustered greenish flowers, succeeded by black berries about the size of peas. R. FRANGULA. The Berry-bearing Alder. Europe and Britain. A more erect shrub than the former, and destitute of spines.
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