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LICHEN CANINUS. = ASH-COLOURED GROUND 
ongh LIVERWORT, 
SYNONYMA. Lichen cinereus terreftris. Pharm. Dale. 59. 
Alfton. 353. Lewis. 386. Ed. New Difpenf. 219. Murray. v. 
524. Rait. Hift.117. Synop. 76. Hall. Hift. n. 1988. Lichen 
caninus. Hud/on. Flor. Ang. 546. Relban. Flor. Cant. 434. 
Withering. Bot. Arr. iii, 203. Ic. Blackw. 336. Dill. Hift. Mufc, 
p. 200. 4.27. f.102. Flor. Dan. 767. , | 
Cryptogamia Alge, Lin. Gen. Plant. 1202. 
Gen. Ch. Mase. Receptaculum fubcotandum; planiufculum, nitidum, 
Fem. Farina foliis adfpeniias 
be E. Cor Se Lee 
Sp. Ch. L. coriaceus repens lobatus obtufus planus : fubtus venofus 
villofus, pelta marginali adfcendente. 
GROWING on the ground, confifting of creeping leaves, of a 
leather-like fubftance, greenifh, or afh-coloured, and appearing as if 
covered with a farinaceous fubftance, about a fpan in length, one or 
two inches in breadth, widening towards their extremities, feparated 
into lobes, which are fhort, blunt, fingle, or’ in ftrata; beneath 
woolly, veined, and attached by flender white fibres. Peltz or 
targets round or oblong, terminal, hard, folid, afcending, of a reddith 
brown colour. It grows on heaths, dry paftures, and woods. 
This vegetable has a weak faint fmell, and a mucid fharpith tafte. 
It was for a long time highly extolled as a medicine of fingular virtue 
in preventing and curing that dreadful diforder which is produced by 
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