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fame people then grind it to powder, and eat ic 

 as common food, boiling it either in milk or 

 water, or making it into bread. 

 Made into broth, or gruel, it is laid to be very 

 ferviccable in coughs and confumptions, for 

 which purpole it is much ufed at this time in 

 Vienna^ according to Haller and Scopcli. 



L. foliaccus laciniatus obtufus glaber, fupra lacu- 

 nofus, lubtus tomentofus. Sp. pi. 1612. (Mi- 

 chel, gen. t. 45. ord. 14. DUkn. t. 29. /. 113. 

 opt.) 



Lungwort Lichen. Anglis. 



Hazlcraw. ScoUs aujiralihus. 



Upon the trunks of old trees, in fliady woods. 



The leaves arc as broad as a man*s hand, of a 

 leathern fubftance, hanging loofe from the trunk 

 on which it grows, and laciniatcd into wide an- 

 gular fegments. 



The upper furface is reticulated with large inofcu- 

 lating wrinkles, and the fpace between the 

 wrinkles is funk into deep pits, or cavities; 

 which cavities form whitifh tumors, almotl 

 fmoothon the under fide of the leaf, whilft the 

 vallits between them are covered with a thick, 

 tawny, or fufcous down. 



The natural colour of the leaves, when frefli, is 

 green, but in drying they turn firft to a glau- 

 cous, and afterwards to a fufcous colour. 



The 



