806 ORD. LIV. Alge. 
LICHEN CANINUS, ASH-COLOURED GROUND 
LIVERWORT. 
SYNONYMA. — Lichen cinereus terrestris. Pharm. Dale. 59. 
Alston. 353. Lewis. 386. Ed. New Dispens. 219. Murray. v. 
524. Raii. Hist. 117. Synop.76. Hall. Hist.n. 1988. Lichen 
caninus. Hudson. Flor. Ang. 546,  Relhan. Flor. Cant. 434. 
Withering. Bot. Arr. iii. 203. Ic. Blackw. 336. Dill. Hist. 
Muse. P- 200. t. 27. .f. 102. Flor. Dan. 767. 
Cryptogamia Algze. Lin. Gen. Plant. 1202. 
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Gen. Ch. Mase. R cate Jum subrotund | nitidum. 
“We 
a 3 arta, 
Sp. Ch. Biss oriaceus repens Nihari obtusus earn’ subtus venosus 
e villosus, pelta marginali adscendente. 
GROWING on the ground, consisting of creeping leaves, of a 
leather-like substance, greenish, or ash-coloured, and appearing 
as if covered. with a farinaceous substance, about a span in length, 
one or two meches i in breadth, widening towards their extremities, 
lobes +3, which are short, blunt, single, or in strata; 
i, and attached by slender white fibres. 
oblor oe solid, ei 
woods, — b Ve ' =? eee 
This vegetable has : weak faint 
taste. It was for long time fi . 
singular virtue in | d 
which is produced 
antilyssus,. a powder 
vest 
ica a desea sharpish 
| xtolled as a medicine of 
venting at ad curi ng that dreadful disorder 
yt 5 plier animals. _ The pulvie 
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