The Botanist's Companion, Volume II / Or an Introduction to the Knowledge of Practical Botany, and the Uses of Plants. Either Growing Wild in Great Britain, or Cultivated for the Puroses of Agriculture, Medicine, Rural Oeconomy, or the Arts

by William Salisbury

579. LYCOPUS europaeus. WATER-HOREHOUND.—The juice of this gives out a black colour, and is sometimes used by the common people for dyeing woollen cloth. The gypsies are said to use the juice of this plant to colour their faces with.

580. LYSIMACHIA vulgaris. LOOSESTRIFE.—The juice of the whole herb is used to dye woollen yellow.

581. MYRICA Gale. SWEET GALE.—The whole shrub tinges woollen of a yellow colour.

582. NYMPHAEA alba. WHITE WATER-LILY.—The Highlanders make a dye with it of a dark chesnut colour.—Light. Fl. Sc.

583. ORIGANUM vulgare. WILD MARJORAM.—The tops and flowers contain a purple colour, but it is not to be fixed.

584. PHYTOLACCA decandra. VIRGINIAN POKEWEED.—The leaves and berries produce a beautiful rose-colour, but it is very fugacious.

585. PRUNUS domestica. PLUM.—The bark is used by the country people to dye cloth yellow.

586. PYRUS Malus. APPLE,-The bark of this plant, also, produces a yellow colour.

587. QUERCUS Robur. OAK.—The juice of the oak mixed with vitriol forms a black ink; the galls ar employed for the same purpose.

588. RESEDA Luteola. DYER'S WEED, or WELD.—The most usual plant from which the yellow dye is extracted. For its culture, see p. 32.