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tions, being accounted too great an aflringent |. The common. 

 people in Herefordjkire dye their {lockings brown with it. They 

 call it Rags. 



32. The Jinuated ajjj-coloured Ground-Liverwort, Ground- Jeiu's-Ear r 

 or Star of the Earth (f), fo famous in modern times for curing 

 the bite of a mad dog, on the recommendation of Dr. Mead, 

 given before the approach of the hydrophobia in powder with- 

 pepper *, an equal quantity of each, with bleeding and cold 

 bathing, is frequent at the roots of trees in damp woods, and 

 about hedges, with the large reddi/h-brown/pecies (g). 



33- 



(/} Lichen pulmonarius miximus e cinereo refufcens, inferne fubrufus, receptaculis 

 florum rubris plano-orbiculatis. Michel, p. 84. Ord. xii. n. 2. Lichen pulmonarius, faxa- 

 tilis, rufefcens, fuperne planus, inferne reticulatus. 1'ourn. Inft. p. 549. Lichen pulmo- 

 narius, faxatilis digitatus. Valll. Bot. Paris., p. 116. t. 21. f. 16. Icon nan dona., Mi- 

 CHELI judice. 1. c. Mufco-fungus terreftris latifolius cinereus, HEPATIC.* facie. Hift.. 

 Oxon. iii. p. 632. f. 15. t. 7. f. i. Lichen terreftris cinereus. Raj. Hift. PI. i. p. 117. 

 Cat. ANGL. p. 185. Syn. ii. App. 23. Hall. Helv; p. 74. Lichenoides peltatum terreftre 

 cinereum majus, foliis divifis. Dill. GifT. p. 208. Raj. Syn. iii. p. 76. n. 87. Platyfma 

 fmuofum fcutellis ovato-rotundis. Hill. Nat. Hift. PI. p. 89. Lichen cinereus, Offic. Dal. 

 Pharm. p. 59. Blackuiall. t. 336. Lichen foliis planis fubrotundis lobatis obtufis, calyce 

 piano lacinula propria adnato. Linn. Flo. Lapp. n. 441. Royen. lugdb. p. 508. Liche- 

 noides digitatum cinereum, LACTUC./E foiiis finuofis. Dill. Hift. Mufc. p. 200. t. 27. 

 f, 102. 



* OLDENBURG ad RAIUM Epift. poftb. p. no. idque experimentis comprobavit. GEORG. 

 DAMPIER. Ph. Tr. n. 237. Pulvis antilyj/us Officinarum LONDINENSIUM fit ex eo ipfo 

 LICIIENE & pipere nigro. Dofis una fcrupulorum iv. Sir HANS SIOANE 1. c. conf. MOR- 

 TIMER in Ph. Tr. n. 443. p. 319. D. MEAD. Lib. de Ventn. Ed. 4. p. 156. HALLE K. 

 I.e. 



(g) Lichen pulmonarius, major, inferne obfcurus, defuper e cinereo virefcens, recepta- 

 culis fiorum nigricantibus, primum circinatis, deinde teretibus. Michel. Ord. xii. n. 4. 

 p. 85. t. 44 f. 2. Hall. Helv. p. 73. Barrel. Icon. 1278. n. i. Lichen pulmonarius 

 faxatilis digitatus. Vaill. Bot. Paris, p. 116. t. 21. f. 18. nimis piflorie. Lichenoides pef- 



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