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Romans, B. (1775). A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida. New York: Printed for the author. p.85. OCLC745317190.. Later, he wrote, "The Choctaws put its inner bark in hot water along with a quantity of ashes and obtain filaments, with which they weave a kind of cloth not unlike a coarse hempen cloth." (ibid., p. 142). Romans, not knowing the species in question, conjectured that it may have been Morus papyrifera, a plant now largely recognized as being native to Asia.
