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PLANTS USED IN CLOTHING & CORDAGE

PLATE XVIII

1877

 

From left to right starting at the top:

Cotton - Gossypium Barbadense

Flax - Linum usitatissinum

New Zealand Flax - Phormum tenax

Hemp - Cannabis Sativa


SOURCE:

A HISTORY

OF

THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM;

EMBRACING

COMPREHENSIVE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLANTS

MOST INTERESTING

FROM THEIR USES TO MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS;

THEIR APPLICATION IN THE ARTS, MANUFACTURES, MEDICINE, AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY; AND

FROM THEIR BEAUTY OR PECULIARITIES; TOGETHER WITH THE PHYSIOLOGY,

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; AND CLASSIFICATION OF PLANTS.

BY

WILLIAM RHIND

REVISED EDITION, WITH SUPPLEMENT.

ILLUSTRATED BY SEVERAL HUNDRED FIGURES, MANY OF THEM COLOURED.

LONDON:

BLACKIE AND SON, PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS, E.C.;

AND GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH

1877.