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which, however, it is different alfo. Its peculiar charagter 
is: Caly« femiquinguefidus, pentagonus; corolla refupinata, 
limbo quadrifido, lobo longiore ere‘to, bipartito : Stamina dif~ 
tantia, duo breviora (infertora) abortiva, .'The author affigns 
it.tather to. the didynamia-angio/permia, immediately after 
the teucrium, than.to the diandria. I1i,, Experiments on 
the method of preparing, from moft of the lichens, dyes 
forgiving beautiful high colours to filk and wool, By D. 
Weftring, M.D. Sixth continuation. | Of thefe lichens, fit 
forthe purpofes- of dyeing, there are eleven, or twelve kinds, a 
great many of which.grow in Sweden, fo.hat large quantities of 
them, might be collected every year. They atlord excellent 
nourifhment to goats. In fome places they are employed as 
ftuffing for chairs and fophas, in the room of horfe hair, &c. 
fuch, for example, as the Lich. chalybeiyormis, barbatus and 
plicatus. Some kinds, fuch as the L. barbatus and -plicatus, 
are ufed by the common people as medicine in the hooping- 
cough, hemorrhages, jaundice, &c. for which the L. Azrtus 
is alfo ufed. The author was at great pains to examine 
thefe different fpecies, and. made upwards of two hundred ex- 
periments with them in dyeing, but particularly with L. ju- 
batus ; filamentofus pendulus axillis compreffis: L. chalybei- 
formis; filamentofus fubramofus decumbens, wnplicato-flex- 
uofes; and L lanatus, filamentofus, ramofiffimus, decumbens, 
implicatus, opacus. The firft gives a kind of orange-red dye 
(color aurantiacus), and particularly to yarn; the fecond- 
does not yield fo good'a dye; and the third is of no ufe for: 
dyeing. IV. Defcription of new and little known fpecies of 
lichens, by E. Acharius. Sixth continuation. The author 
here treats of the phy/cia foliis fubcartilagineis, planis aut 
convexiufculis, of which figures are given, and among which, 
befides thofe mentioned in the preceding part, the author | 
enumerates, 7. Lichen prunaftri:, fubcoriaceus. mollis ereca. 
tiufculus lineari laciniatus planus rugofo-lacunofus, fubtus 
albiffimus; feutellis lateralibus concavis fufcis. 8. Lich, 
fraxineus; cartilagines-membranaceus erectus planus, lanceo~ 
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