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

599. STACHYS sylvatica. HEDGE-HOREHOUND.—The whole herb is said to dye a yellow colour.

600. THALICTRUM flavum. YELLOW MEADOW-RUE.—The roots and leaves both give out a fine yellow colour.

601. THAPSIA villosa. DEADLY CARROT.—The umbels are employed by the spanish peasants to dye yellow.

602. TORMENTILLA erecta. ERECT TORMENTIL.—This root is red, and might probably be usefully employed.

603. TRIFOLIUM pratense. MEADOW-CLOVER.—The inhabitants of Scania employ the heads to dye their woollen cloth green.

604. URTICA dioica. NETTLE.—The roots of bettles are used to dye eggs of a yellow colour against the feast of Easter by the religious of the Greek church, as are also madder and logwood for the same purpose.

605. XANTHIUM strumarium. LESSER BURBOCK.—The whole herb with the fruit dyes a most beautiful yellow.

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SECTION XII.—-PLANTS USED IN RURAL OECONOMY.

The following few plants are such as are used for domestic purposes which do not fall under any of the foregoing heads, and I therefore have placed them together here.