HERB - dyes

[Jenne Heise]

> >brazilwood (Brazil was named for the dyeplant, not vice versa) and bixa and 
> >the coccineal beetles, added viable reds after 1492.
>  Now, I'd thought ghe coccineal beetles *were* the tiny mediterranean 
> creature that produced red.  Thank you for clarifying!
> 
I think the bug combinations were kermes (older than but inferior to
cochineal, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica) and cochineal (native
to the Americas).

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Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
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