CRYPTOGAMIA ALG/E. ' ^47 



• . ^„. ■; by the great Dr. Mead^ for the cure of canine 

 madnefs. This medicine was to be divided in- 

 to four equal portions, one of vhich was to be 

 taken by the patient every morning, fafung, for 

 four mornings fucccfiively, in half a pint of 

 warm cow's rnilk ; after which he was to ufe the 

 cold bath every morning for a month. 



it is m.uch to be lamented that the fuccefs of this 

 medicine has not always anlwered the expecf a- 

 tion. There are inftances vyhere the applica- 

 tion has not prevented the Hydrophobia •, and it 

 even uncertain whether it has been at all inllru- 

 mental in keeping off that diforder. 



aphtofus c^Z L. coriaceus repens lobatus obtufus planus, verru- 

 cis fparfis, pelta marginal; afcendente. S_p.pl, 

 1616. [Dillen. mufc. /. 28./. 106 J 



Green-ground Liverwort, with black warts. Anglis 



It grows upon the ground at the roots of trees in 

 woods, and in other ftoney and moffy places. 

 . ' Mr. Talden gathered it at the foot of the Fsnt- 



land hills. 



It differs very little from the L. caninus, and fome 

 authors make it only a variety of it. 



The leaves, when frelh, are of a remarkable fine 

 green colour, but turn glaucous, or blue-grey, 

 when dry •, their farface is fprinkled over with 

 black-green warts, which are larger and m.ore 

 diftinft than in the L. caninus. Their under fide 

 is downy, almofl: black about the centre, witii 

 !■ ' fibrous 



