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They also manufacture silks, and crapes, and linen, and cotton cloth, which, though coarse, is very soft. Many fruits of temperate and tropical climes are grown. The lacquer-tree the Rhus vernix which is used in the well-known lacquer work, is a handsome tree. The leaf is something like that of the beech, but broader. The lacquer is drawn from its milky sap and mixed with the oil of the bignonia.
The third, Grindelia robusta, was used in the treatment of pulmonary troubles, and externally in poisoning from Rhus toxicodendron, or Poison Oak, and in various skin diseases." Their food was of the crudest and simplest character. Whatever they could catch they ate, from deer or bear to grasshoppers, lizards, rats, and snakes.
It is, however, often substituted by the Rhus radicans, which has not the medical properties that this plant has; and it is to be regretted that the leaves of both species are so much alike, that, when gathered, they are not to be distinguished. RICINUS communis. PALMA CHRISTI. Seeds and Oil.
The street sparrows, pestiferous and persistent as they are, would forsake my sylvan pageant if I spoke of the Bird-foot Violet as the 'Viola Pedata'; and the commonest cur would run howling if he beard the gentle Poison Dogwood maligned as the 'Rhus Venenata'. The very milk-cans would turn to their native pumps in disgust from my attempt to invoke our simple American Cowslip as the 'Dodecatheon Meadia'.
A naturalist's mind is one predominantly scientific, more interested in the relation of a flower to other flowers than its relation to any philosophy or anyone's philosophy. A transcendent love of Nature and writing "Rhus glabra" after sumac doesn't necessarily make a naturalist. He seems rather to let Nature put him under her microscope than to hold her under his.
Even at that time, although the woods were swarming with birds, many of them travelers from the North, this white-eye was nearly the only one still in song. It occurred to me that possibly it is our fault, and not that of Rhus venenata, when we suffer from the touch of that graceful shrub.
At last he said, smiling frankly, "You great London practitioners have so many new medicines: may I ask what Rhus toxico toxico " "Dendron." "Is?" "The juice of the upas, vulgarly called the poison-tree." Dr. Dosewell started. "Upas poison-tree little birds that come under the shade fall down dead! You give upas juice in these desperate cases: what's the dose?" Dr.
The plant is common in our gardens, but their medicinal powers are much weaker than in those from abroad. RHODODENDRON Chrysanthemum. YELLOW-FLOWERED RHODODENDRON. See No. 290. RHUS Toxicodendron. POISON-OAK. Leaves. L. E. Of considerable use in paralytic affections, and is much used in the present day.
The Megarians also show a spot in their city where some Amazons were buried, on the way from the market to a place called Rhus, where the building in the shape of a lozenge stands. It is said, likewise, that others of them were slain near Chaeronea, and buried near the little rivulet, formerly called Thermodon, but now Haemon, of which an account is given in the life of Demosthenes.
The people of Megara also show a burying-place of the Amazons, as one goes from the market-place to what they call Rhus, where the lozenge-shaped building stands. It is said that some others died at Chaeronea, and were buried by the little stream which it seems was anciently called Thermodon, but now is called Haemon, about which we have treated in the life of Demosthenes.
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