Lopez root : Toddalia aculeata. Contains ber berin. Yellow.
Lomatiol : Tricondylus ilicifolia, Tricondylus myricoides. Yellow.
Madder : Rubin tinetorum. (Fig. 374). Natural source of alizarin dyes. Formerly considered the most important of all dye-stuffs used by calico printers, and cultivated very extensively in Italy and France, but is now entirely displaced by arti ficial alizarin. The plant is a native of Asia Minor. Color dyed with it is the well-known Turkey red. Mang-koudur, or oungkoudon, song-kon-long, jong koutong : Morinda umbellata. Lakes, yellow to red. Marsh marigold : Caltha palustris. Yellow. Mountain wormwood, or Genepi des alpes : Artemisia Absinthium. Yellowish.
Munjeet : Rubia cordirolia. Similar to madder. Myrtle berry: Myrtus communis. Bluish red. Nettle : Urtica sp.
Nicaragua wood : Guilandina echinata. Boughs or twigs used. See Redwoods.
Onion : Allium Cepa. Alumina lake, yellow-brown. Oregon grape root : Berberis Aguifolium. Yellow basic dye.
Panama crimson : Vine called " China." Parsley: Apium Petroselinum. Alumina lake, yellow. Peachwood, or St. Martha wood, Martin wood, Bois du sang: Guilandina crhinata. From the Sierra Nevada in Mexico. See under Redwoods.
Persian berries, or yellow berries, Kreutzbeeren, Avig non-Korner, graines de perse, graines jaunes, graines d' Avignon Rhamnus ittrectoria), French berries (R. Ala hrnus , Spanish berries (S. saxalilisl, Italian berries (R. Hungarian berries (R. cathart ica). Alum lake, bright yellow ; iron lake, dark olive.
Poppy, or field red corn : Paparrr Rheras. Red. Poplar buds : Populus sp. Alumina lake, yellow. Prickly pear : Opuntia rulgaris. Red. One of the chief species of cacti on which the cochineal (which see) insect lives and propagates.
Privet berries : Ligustrum vulgare. Bluish red. Purple heart: Copaifera publillora. Alum lake, yellow. Puriri : Vitex littoralis. Alum lake, yellow.
Quercitron : Quercus relutina and varieties: Yields quercetin, yellow. Quercitron bark extract is still used extensively.
Quebracho : Quebrachia Lorentzii. Yellow color.
Redwoods : See Brazil, Bahia, Peach, Nicaragua, Sapan, Lima, Braziletto, Barwood and Camwood. These woods yield on treatment various red to yellow-red colored solutions, no two woods giving exactly the same shades ; i. e., Brazilin, probably occurring as a glucoside, forms Brazilein on oxidation and yields lakes similar to alizarin in shade, but inferior in all other qualities. Florence, Berlin and Venetian lakes are lakes of the soluble red woods.
Rhubarb : Rheum officinale. Yields cbryaophanis acid. Yellow.
Rue : Ruta graveolens. Alum lake, yellow.
Safflower, or dyer's saffron, carthame, safran bfitard, bastard saffron : Carthamus tinctorius. (Fig. 375). Yel low. Triturated with French chalk and dried, forms various bright " rouges".
Saffron, or azafran (Afgh.): Crocus sativus. Yellow. (Fig. 376).
Sage : Salvia officinalis. Yellow.
Sandalwood, or santalwood, lignum santalum, red san talwood,Saunders wood, red sandalwood, red Sanders wood, bobs de santal, Sandelholz : Pterocarpus santalinus, P. Indieus. Contains santalin, a fine red powder easily soluble in alcohol and acetic acid with a blood-red color. See under Redwoods.
Sapan wood, or sappan wood, Japan wood, bobs du Japan ; also called red sandalwood, santalwood, sumbawa wood: acsalpina Sappan. Probably identical with caliatur wood or cariatur wood. See under Redwoods.
Saw-wort : Serratula tinctoria. Alumina lake, yel low.
Sepia : Sepia officinalis, Loligo tunicata and other species of cuttlefish common in the Mediterranean and Adriatic. Dark brown coloring matter from the ink bag of these animals. The pure pigment constitutes four fifths of the dried ink-bags as they occur in commerce. Dark brown ink-like pigment.
Sorgo red, or durrha : Andropogon Sorghum. Lakes. crimson red.
Spanish trefoil : Trifolium sp.
Spinach : Spinacia oleracea. Yellow.
Stringy bark : Eucalyptus marrorhyncha. Orange to yellow.
Sun dew : Drosera TVhittakerii. Lakes red to brown. Sumac (Cape), or pruim bast : Colpoon compressum. Alum lake, yellow.