Dirca

“We found some natives pounding the woody stems of a poisonous climbing-plant (Dirca palustris) called Busungu, or poison, which grows abundantly in the swamps.”

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries

“The commonest member of the order is the moosewood (_Dirca_) (Fig.  113, _A_), belonging to the first of the three families”

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses

“Jacob went along the brook and obtained a quantity of bark from the moosewood, (_Dirca palustris_,) of which he made a strong cord, long enough to reach from the pen to the house.”

Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories

“The prevailing underwoods were: Dirca palustris (moose-wood), Acer spicatum (mountain maple), Viburnum lantanoides (hobble-bush), and frequently Taxus baccata, var. Cana-densis (American yew).”

The Maine Woods

“We found some natives pounding the woody stems of a poisonous climbing - plant (_Dirca palustris_) called Busungu, or poison, which grows abundantly in the swamps.”

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864

“Azalea coccinea, Philadelphus inodorous and others; but who would have expected to see the Dirca palustris and Dodecathean meadea grow in abundance in this hot climate! it is true they are seen in the rich and deep shaded vales, between the hills and North exposure; but they attain to a degree of magnitude and splendor never seen in Pennsylvania.”

Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians.

“HAVING dined at the ferry, I crossed the river into Georgia; on landing and ascending the bank, which has here a North prospect, I observed the Dirca palustris, growing six or seven feet high.”

Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians.

“Louis, ever fertile in expedients, crushed the cooling fruit and applied them to the sprained foot; rendering the application still more grateful by spreading them upon the large smooth leaves of the sapling oak: these he bound on with strips of the leathery bark of the moose-wood, [Footnote: "_Dirca palustris_," moose-wood American mezereon, leather-wood.”

Lost in the Backwoods

“Dirca fipidia Stellera PaiTeriim Lacbnaea Baeckea DIGYNIA.”

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