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hoglice, administered as pills for several forms of scrofulous 

 disease. The woodlouse. sowpig. or hoglouse, abounds with 

 a nitrous salt which has long found favour for curing scrofulous 

 disease and inveterate struma, as also against some kinds of 

 stone in the bladder. The hoglouse, or millepede, was the primi- 

 tive medicinal pill. It is found in dry gardens under stones, 

 etc., and rolls itself up into a ball when touched. These are 

 also called chiselbobs, and cudworms. From three to twelve 

 w^ere formerly given in Rhenish wine for a hundred days to- 

 gether to cure all kinds of cancers; or they weie sometimes 

 worn round the neck in a small bag' (which was absurd!). In 

 the Eastern counties they are known as "old sows" or ''St. 

 Anthony's hogs." Their Latin name is Porcellus scaber. The 

 Welsh call this small creature the "withered old woman of the 

 wood," "the little pig of the wood." and "the little grey hog," 

 also "grammar sows." Their word "gurach" like "grammar," 

 means a dried up old dame. ( W. T. Fernie. in Herbal Samples.) 



Key to the Faiiiilies. 



a. Maxillipeds with large lamellar terminal joints, much longer than acute- 

 ly produced masticatory lobe. SCyphacid.E. 

 aa. Maxillipeds with small and almost rudimentary terminal joints, hardly 

 longer than truncate masticatory lobe. 

 b. External antennae generally short, with small antennal openings ; body 

 able to be contracted into a ball ; head immersed in first thoracic seg- 

 ment ; lateral parts of head undifferentiated ; clypeus perpendicular ; 

 legs generally short : uropoda short, not reaching beyond terminal seg- 

 ment of abdomen or preceding segment ; terminal segment short and 

 broad. armadillidid.B. 

 bb. External antennae generally long, close together, with large antennal 

 openings ; body usually not capable of contracting into a ball ; head 

 less manifestly immersed in first thoracic segment ; lateral parts of 

 head eeparated by vertical marginal and inframarginal line ; clypeus 

 arched ; legs generally long ; uropoda produced, reach beyond terminal 

 segment of abdomen and preceding segment ; terminal segment nar- 

 rower than preceding ones, usually conically produced at end. 



ONISCID.E. 



Family SCYPHACID^. 



Head without median or antero-lateral lobes. Front not mar- 

 gined, but continuous with epistome. Second pair of antenna; 



