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fibrous radicles, but whidfli or buff-colour'd' 

 nt- ar the margins, and generally, but not always 

 ? dcftitute of thofe nerves or veins vi'hich are k 



manifeil in the L cdninus. The fhields, or pd- 

 /^, are fimilar to thofc of the laft-mentioned. 

 Diiknius's fpecimen of this plant, in his colleftior 

 at Oxford, is now, by keeping, turned :o a 

 brown afh colour ; the warts of the fame co- 

 lour, a lutlc imprcfs'd, or funk into the fub- 

 ftance of the leaf. 

 Linnjus informs us, that the country people Oi, 

 Upland, in Szvedefi, give an infufion of this Li«; 

 chen in milk, to children that are troubled with' 

 the diforder call'd theThruJJj, or Aphthcc, which 

 induced that ingenious naturalift to beftow up- 

 on it the trivial name of aphtofus. 

 The fam- writer alfo teaches, that a decoftion of 

 it in water will purge upwards and downwards, 

 and dcftroy worms. 



fylvaticus L. coriaceus repens laciniatus lacunofus, peltis mar- 



5c^. ginalibus adlcendentibus. Lin. fyji. nat, edit. 13. 



-p. 808. Uudf. Ft. Ang. p, 45 j. {Dillen. mufc. t. 



27./. 101. Michel gen. t. 43. Ord. ii. feliisni- 



mis latis.) 



Villous-wood Lichen. Anglis, 



In fhady woods about the roots of trees frequent^ 



as in Glen-Eawoody and other places about Kirk- 



tfticbae!) in Bumfriejhire^ in plenty. Dr. Burgefs, 



The 



