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229. Tinder from Wormwood.

The Japanese use the woolly part of the leaves of wormwood (artemisia vulgaris,) for tinder; it is so prepared as to form a brownish coloured wool, and it easily catches fire[1].

  1. ↑ Thunberg, Vol. 3, P. 7l.
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