. Studies of Plant Life in Canada, ou, extraits à partir de la forêt, lac et plaine [microforme]. Les plantes ; botanique ; plantes ; Botanique. Lorsqu'il est sec, le bois du Thuya est hautement inflammable, brûler avec une grande rapidité, et ne laissant qu'un résidu de cendres qui sont déficients dans les sels de l'engrais ou des feuillus à feuilles caduques. La gomme de l'Cedar est clair et incolore, et possède une belle fraîcheur, qui est décerné après une douche et lors de l'ensoleillement. Les Indiens considèrent la gomme de cet arbre comme possédant des qualités médicinales et très thérapeutique. Ils mâchent comme

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. Studies of plant life in Canada, or, Gleanings from forest, lake and plain [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. When dry, the wood of the White Cedar is highly inflammable, burning with great rapidity, and leaving only a residue of fine white ashes which are said to be deficient in the fertilizing salts of the deciduous or hardwood trees. The gum of the Cedar is clear and colourless, and possesses a fine aromatic scent, which is given out after showers and during sunshine. The Indians regard the gum of this tree as possessing very healing and medicinal qualities. They chew it as a pleasant luxury ; it excites the flow of saliva, and no doubt is far less injurious to the system than tobacco, of which they are so fond. The Indians use the root of the Cedar as well as that of the Tamerack (or icah-tap) in making their Birch-bark canoes, and of the inner bark the squaws weave mats and baskets. The fibrous bark is soft, pliable, and tough, and is better adapted for the manufacturing of mats than that of the Bass- wood. The thwarts of the Birch canoes are also made of split Cedar. The tough silvery-grey paper which forms the outer covering of the wasps' nests is chiefly derived from the fibrous portions of the 'hite Cedar. While watching these industrious insects tearing off fragments of the silky-thready bark from some old fallen tree, I have thought that a manufacture of paper, or felt, might be produced from this abundant material, for which it seems particularly adapted. The fibre is white, shining, and tough ; it can be beaten to any degree of fineness ; and moreover, seems to be of a more enduring substance than hemp or flax, as I have known portions of Cedar bark to lie on the ground for a very long time, trodden down by the foot, and exposed to every vicissitude of weather, and yet retain their c[ualities unchanged. It would not be the first time that man has profited by the example of the lower animals in his manufactures, or borrowed from them ma

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