trings, fishing lines, nets, and ropes.

71. BROMELIA PINGUIN.--This is very common as a hedge or fence plant in
the West Indies. The leaves, when beaten with a blunt mallet and
macerated in water, produce fibers from which beautiful fabrics
are manufactured. The fruit yields a cooling juice much used in
fevers.

72. BROSIMUM ALICASTRUM.--The bread-nut tree of Jamaica. The nuts or
seeds produced by this tree are said to form an agreeable and
nutritious article of food. When cooked they taste like hazelnuts.
The young branches and shoots are greedily eaten by horses and
cattle, and the wood resembles mahogany, and is used for making
furniture.

73. BROSIMUM GALACTODENDRON.--The cow tree of South America, which
yields a milk of as good quality as that from the cow. It forms
large forests on the mountains near the town of Cariaco and
elsewhere along the seacoast of Venezuela, reaching to a
considerable height. In South America the cow tree is called Palo
de Vaca, or Arbol de Leche. Its milk, which is obtained by making
incisions in the trunk, so closely resembles the milk of the cow,
both in appearance and quality, that it is commonly used as an
article of food by the inhabitants of the places where the tree is
abundant. Unlike many other vegetable milks, it is perfectly
wholesome, and very nourishing, possessing an agreeable taste, and
a pleasant balsamic odor, its only unpleasant quality being a
slight amount of stickiness. The chemical analysis of this milk
has shown it to possess a composition closely resembling some
animal substances; and, like animal milk, it quickly forms a
cheesy scum, and after a few days' exposure to the atmosphere,
turns sour and putrefies. It contains upwards of 30 per cent of a
resinous substance called _galactine_.

74. BRYA EBENUS.--Jamaica or West India ebony tree. This is not the
plant that yields the true ebony-wood of commerce. Jamaica ebony
is of a greenish-brown color, very hard, and so heavy that it
sinks in water. It takes a good polish, and is used by turners for
the manufacture of numerous kinds of small wares.

75. BYRSONIMA SPICATA.--A Brazilian plant, furnishing an astringent
bark used for tanning, and also containing a red coloring matter
employed in dyeing. The berries are used