The Art of Dying Wool, Silk, And Cotton

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Quin- tins, that fait having no advantage over other fixed alkalies, fince in cryftalizing it lofes its phlogifton.
It was formerly the cuftom amongfl: the anci- ents to cleanfe their wool with a plant which might perhaps be advantageoufly ufed in the unguming of filk. This plant is the Struthion of the Greeks, called by Fl'iny Radkula; the root of this plant, fays he, has the virtue [Tingenlihus Ra- dicula Unas preparat^ quam Struthion de Graiis vocari diximus. P. L. 24. Sed. 58. Radkula Lavan
...dis lanis fuccum hahet : mintm quantum con- ferens candori, molitieique. P. L. 19. Seel. 18.] of giving foftnefs to wool, and the mofl: aftonifh- ing whitenefs : it grows in cultivated ground, alfo naturally in ftony and uncultivated places.
It has large and extended roots, which when ufed for the cleanfing of wool, are pounded.
Diofcorides [L; 2. ch. 193.] fpeaking of this plant, calls it the fame which is fold in the fliops by the name of foap-wort, becaufe ufed inftead of foap, and that it anfwers as well for taking ipots out of ftufFs, and for cleanfing wool of its natural 398 THEARTOF natural fat.


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