OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



The Chalice-Mofs was formerly ufed in a powder, decoiftion, Or 

 fyrup, for curing the convullive or whooping cough in chil- 

 dren * ; for which it kept up its character as a fpecific, till the 

 Cortex Penwiana, a more powerful analeptic, was found to anfwer 

 the end more effectually f. 







31. Tree-Lungwort, or Oak-Lung^ of a re ticular figure, and of a 

 pale brownim colour, with bro-wnfcute!l<s at the edges (e) t is fre^ 

 quent on old oaks and other trees in thick woods. It varies in its 

 reticular form and devarications, according to its different ftages 

 of growth. It was antiently ufed with great commendations for 

 a dry hectic cough, and other difeafes of the breaft, in a fyrup 

 or decoction; but it very rarely enters into modern prefcrip- 



p. 204. Lichen caule fimplici, calyce turbinato, margine tenui. Linn. Flo. Lapp. p. 428. 

 Royen* lugdb. p. 512. interdum duar. unciar. altitudine in f axis alpium humidh, et truncis arie- 

 rum. unius plantte dute Darietates t unde unica icsn eft ap*d veteres, Cam. Epit. fcilicet. p. 783. 

 Magnolium, & alios. 



* WILLIS Pharm. rational, f. i. c. 6. de tufli puerorum convulfiva. 

 f HDXHAM. de acre & morbis epidem. Vol. i. p. 76, 77. 



(e) Pulmonaria. Dorften. p. 24. b. Icon bona. Matthiol. p. 1639, &c. Cam. Epit. 

 p. 783. Dad. Pempt. p. 474. frag. p. 524. Lichen arboreus f. Pulmonaria arborea. /..!?. 

 iii. p. 759. Tourn. Inft. p. 549. Michel, p. 86. Ord. xiv. n. i. con/, t. 45. f. j. qua 

 varietal e/e videtur. Hall. Helv. p. 73. Boerh. Ind. A. p. 17. Mufcus Pulmonarius. 

 C. B. Pin. p. 361. Dal. Pharm. p. 59. Blackball, t. 336. Mufcus arboreus pulmonarius. 

 Raj. Hift. i. p. 114, Lichenoides peltatum arboreum maximum playtyphyllum. Dill. Gifll 

 p. 208. Raj. Syn. iii. p. 76. n. 86. Mufco-fungus arboreus platyphyllos ramofus e viridi 

 fufcus. Hift. Oxen. iii. p. 634. f. 15. t. 7. f. i. Platjfma redculatum marginibus fcutel- 

 liferis. Hill. Nat. Hift. PI. p. 88. Lichen fo'iis oblongis ciivifis, fuperficie reticulata punc- 

 tata. Linn. Flo. Lapp. n. 444. Royen. lugdb. p. 509. Lichenoides pulmoneum reticula- 

 tum vulgare, marg ; nibus peltiferis. Dill. Hift. Mufc. p. 212, 213. 1.29. f. 113. 



I " Adftringit omnino, uti tota fere lichenum claffis, & exiguo in ufu eft." HALLER. 

 J. c. HOFMANN. dt Med. OJficin p. 447. 



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