Part 3 (2/2)

PLANTS WHICH DYE PURPLE

Byrony _Byronia dioica_ Berries

Damson Fruit, with alum

Dandelion _Taraxacum Dens-leonis_ Roots

Danewort _Sahtshade _Atropa Belladonna_

Elder _Sara_ Berries, with alum, a violet; with alum and salt, a lilac colour

Sundew _Drosera_

Whortleberry or blaeberry _Vaccinium myrtillus_ It contains a blue or purple dye which will dye wool and silk without lutinosa_ Bark, with copperas

Blackberry _Rubus fruticosus_ Young shoots, with salts of iron

Dock _Rumex_ Root

Elder Bark, with copperas

Iris _Iris Pseudacorus_ Root

Meadoeet _Spirea Ulmaria_

Oak Bark and acorns

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote A: ”On boiling sloes, their juice becoes, ashed with soap, into a bluish colour, which is perrows abundantly in meadows, affords a very fine pure yelloith alureatly resembles weld yellow It is extremely permanent”]

[Footnote C: ”The leaves of the s, _salix pentandra_, gathered at the end of August and dried in the shade, afford, if boiled with about one thirtieth potash, a fine yellow colour to wool, silk and thread, with alu on this island are capable of affording yellow much like those from the dyer's broom; also the bark and shoots of the Lombardy poplar, _populus pyramidalis_ The three leaved hellebore, _helleborus trifolius_, for dyeing wood yellow, is used in Canada The seeds of the purple trefoil, lucerne, and fenugreek, the flowers of the French old, the camomile, _antemis tinctoria_, the ash, _fraxinus excelsior_, fumitory, _fuolden rod, _solidago canadensis_, affords a very beautiful yelloool, silk and cotton upon an aluminous basis” _Bancroft_]

CHAPTER IV

THE LICHEN DYES