CRYPTOGAM! A ALGJE. s^i 



lame people then grind k to powder, and eat it 

 as common food, boiling it either in milk or 

 water, or making it into bread. 

 Made inLO broth, or griiej, it is laid to be very 

 lerviceable in coughs and tonluinptions, for 

 which purpofe it is much ufed at this time in 

 Vienna, according to Haller and ^copoli. 



"^"^ ■'■'■ f/. foliateus laciniatus obtufus o-jaber, funra lacu- 

 US AT.. - , o ' r 



nofus, fubtus tomenrofus. Sp. pi. 16 ? 2. (AH- 



chel. gen. t. 45. ord. i\. DUkn. i. ilj. f. ni, 



opi-) \ ^ . ■ 



Lungwort Lichen. Anglis. 



Hazleraw. Scotis auftralibus. >.-.',- i > 



Upon the trunks of old tree.-?, In {Bady wQods„ 



The leaves are as broad as a man's hand, of ,t 

 leathern fubftance, hanging loofe from the truirk 

 on which it grows, and laciniated into wide an- 

 '' '^ ^ ' gular fefi^ments. 



The upper furface is reticulated with large inofcu- 

 lating wrinkles, and the ipace between the 

 "■ - " wrinkles is • funk into deep pits, or cavities •, 

 ^""'"- which cavities form whitifli tumors, almoi'c 



fmooth on the under fide of the leaf, whilft the 

 vallies between them are covered- with a thick,, 

 tawny, or fufcbus down. 



The natural colour of the leaves, when frefli, ii 

 green, but m drying they turn brft to a. glau- 

 cous, and afterwards to a fufcous colour. 



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