5fy 
Clafs 
Ord. Al 
j- Cryptogamia. Urd. Algae. Lin. Gen. Plant. 
1202. 
Ef, Gen. Cb. 
Ma s c . 
Receptaculum fubrotundum, planiufculum, 
nitidum. 
Fmm. Farina foliis adfperfa 
D. Foliacei. 
Sp.Ch. L. foliaceus adfcendens laciniatus: marginibus elevatis ciliatis. 
THI 
Lich 
ered 
the leaves are crowded 
conneded togethe 
variously finuated 
the ed 
fmootr 
5 
me 
two or 
three 
ch 
es 
divided into irreeular blunt lob 
d 
ong 
O 
) 
d 
fringed with fh 
ftrong briftles 
th 
fu 
ace is 
fnining, channelled, and of a pale g 
brown 
/ 
the fru&ifications or fcutella are large, of a reddifti brown colour, and 
placed 
of tl 
It is a native of B 
partic 
ly on the mountains of Wales and Scotland 
The medicinal qualities of th 
e 
Lichen Ifland 
h 
ly bee 
fo well eftablifhed at Vienna, that this plant is now admitted 
Materia Med 
f th 
Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia. It is extremely 
muc 
mous 
nd to the tafte is bitter and fomewhat aftring 
its 
bitternefs, as well as the purgative quality which 
it manifefts in its 
ftate, are in a great, mealure diffipated on drying, or may b~ 
by 
g 
infufion in water, fo that the inhab 
Iceland convert it into 
bly grateful 
food 
f 
An 
this Lichen, boiled a quarter of an hour in a pint of water, 
yeilded feven ounces of a mucilage as thick as that procured by 
folution of one part of crum arabic in three of water 
The medical virtues of this Lie! 
were probably firft 
a 
from the Icelanders, who employ it in its frefh ft 
when deprived of th 
that it is an e 
and diarrhseas 
Scopo 
quality, and properly prepared, we 
remedy in confumptions, coughs, dyien 
rned 
a but 
told 
e 
ms to have been the firft who of late years 
See B 
chius in Bartholini, J#. Med. Hafn. 167 
P 
26 
Olafsen Relfe 
nem IJland. torn. i. p. *59 
No. 
A 1 
F 
called 
