ISBN: 9781130437881

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 850 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.7in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… Altro …

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 850 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.7in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: . . . of a light kind of beer, called nettle beer. The bast fibre of nettles is used for textile purposes. Yarn and cloth, both of the coarsest and finest descriptions, can be made of it. The fibre of 1rtiea dinica, used by the ancient Egyptians, is still employed in Piedmont and other countries. When wanted for fibre, the plant is cut in midsummer, and treated like hemp. The names nettle yarn and nettle cloth are, however, now commonly given in most parts of Europe to particular linen and cotton fabrics. The fibre of cannabina, a native of the south of Siberia and other middle parts of Asia, is much used; and from other species both fine lace and strong ropes can be manufactured. The fibre of Urtica japonica, or Pouzolzia viminea, is much used in Japan, and also that of Urtica argentea (or Pipturus argenteus) in the South Sea Islands, and of Urtica gracilis in Canada. Urtica tuberosa, or Pouzolzia tuberosa, produces nutritious tubers, which are eaten in India raw, boiled, or roasted. Australia produces a magnificent tree-nettle, Laportea Gigas, abundant in some parts of New South Wales, which sometimes reaches a height of 140 feet with a trunk of great thickness, and very large green leaves, which, when young, sting violently. In some places it forms scrub forests, and its stinging leaves form a great impediment to the traveler. The common nettle tree of the United States is a species of Ccltis (see Hackberry); the name dead nettle is given to certain species of Lamium, a genus of the order Labiates. Bcehmeria nii-ea, often called false nettle, supplies China grass or ramie (q. v. ). NETTLE-BUTTERFLY. Any of several species of butterflies, whose eggs are laid upon the leaves of nettles, namely Pyrantels Atalanta, Pyrameis cardui, and Vanessa urtica, the last, as. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<