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HEMP AGRIMONY.. The herb, a good yellow. BETULA alba. BIRCH. The leaves, a yellow. BETULA nana. DWARF-BIRCH. The leaves, a yellow. BETULA Alnus. ALDER. The bark affords a brown colour; which with the addition of copperas becomes black. CALENDULA officinalis. COMMON MARIGOLD. The radius of the corolla, if bruised, affords a fine orange.
Pinus abies, spruce fir. Taxus baccata, yew. Nuphar luteum, yellow water-lily. Ceratophyllum demersum, hornwort. Potamogeton, pondweed. Prunus spinosus, common sloe. Menyanthes trifoliata, buckbean. Nymphaea alba, white water-lily. Alnus, alder. Quercus, oak. Betula, birch.
If it has not been invaded in the meantime by men or cattle, trees and arborescent plants, Alnus, Salix, Myrica, etc., appear, and these contribute to hasten the attachment of the turf to the bottom, both by their weight and by sending their roots quite through into the ground."
Laciniate alders seem to have been produced by mutation at sundry times. Mirbel says that the Alnus glutinosa laciniata is found wild in Normandy and in the forests of Montmorency near Paris. A similar variety has been met with in a nursery near Orleans in the year 1855.
BIRCH-TREE. Is in great use and of considerable value on some estates for making brooms, and the timber for all purposes of turnery-ware and carving. The sap of the Birch-tree is drawn by perforating the bark in the early state of vegetation. It is fermented, and makes a very pleasant and potent beverage called Birch Wine. BETULA Alnus.
When chyle, milk, or other extraneous fluids are found in the urinary bladder, or in any other excretory receptacle of a gland; no one can for a moment believe, that these have been collected from the mass of blood by a morbid secretion, as it contradicts all analogy. Aurea duræ Mala ferant quercus? Narcisco floreat alnus? Pinguia corticibus sudent electra myricæ?
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