Omniana/Volume 2/Tinder from Wormwood

by Robert Southey

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.