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supply always on hand to feed tlieir snakes with : this assertion I 

 am much inclined to doubt. 



Others say that it is not a vegetable product, but a conglome- 

 rated mass of the larvse of wdiite ants. It is not familiar to the 

 generality of natives ; and the educated among them are not aware 

 of its existence ; whereas it is Avell knoAvn to the rude villagcrj^, 

 who attribute to it poisonous qualities. The various accounts 

 given of its nature and properties differ so much that one hardly 

 knows what degree of reliance to place on them. 



The Vythians eagerly seek it, and use it as a remedy in cholera, 

 syphilis, and a variety of other diseases. In cholera it is pre- 

 scribed as a specific, by rubbing it up with a little water and fresh 

 gmger-juice or country arrack; and the dose is repeated after 

 every motion or act of vomiting. 



The natives who assisted in removing the present specimens 

 remarked that they are not full-grown, and that they attain the 

 size of an orange durinj^ the monsoons. It is not commonly 



found in white-ant hills, but is met with in one out of every 

 twenty or thirty on the western coast and Coimbatore district. 



Mr 



Man 



subject as he could collect for me in the CoimbatorD district. 



I^ist of Cladonicx coUecte/in Iceland, Fiiro, and IS'orway. By W. 



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The following short list is a natural Appendix to my " Contribu- 

 tions to the Lichen-flora of IS'orthern Europe," printed last ses- 



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sion*. At the time of presentation of that paper, I was unavoid 

 ably compelled to omit the Cladonic^, and I am only now in a 

 position to supply the omission— one which fortunately does not 

 aifect any general statements propounded in the " Contributions" 

 in question. With only one exception, the Chdonice collected 

 '^^ere more or less common British forms ; tlicy were mostly ter- 

 ricoloui?, though a few were also saxicolous or corticolous (the 

 ^*'itter among Norwegian specimens). 



The lichens catalogued in the following list have had the ad van- , 

 *age of being examined and named by my friend Mr. Mudd, of 



* Jouni. of Linncan Society, (Botany) vol. ix. 1865, |). 3G5. 



