a^S CRYPTOGAMIA ALGJE. 



fibrous radicles, but whitilh or buff'-colourd 

 near the margins, and generally, but not always, 

 deftitute of thofe nerves or veins which are i'o 

 manifell in the L cnvinus. The Inields, or pel- 

 tcs^ are fimilar to thofe of the laft-mentioned. 

 Dillenius\ fpecimen of this plant, in his colledion 

 at Oxford^ is now, by keeping, turned to a 

 brown afh colour -, the warts of the fame co- 

 lour, a liule imprtfs'd, or funk into che fub- 

 llance of the leaf. 



Linnms informs us, that the country people of 

 Upland., in Szveden, give an infufion of this Li- 

 chen in milk, to children that are troubled with 

 the diforder cali'd lYieTkrttJh, ov Aphiba:^ which 

 induced that ingenious naruralifl: to bellow up- 

 on it the tdvial iiame of aphtofus. 



The fame writer alfo teaches, that a decodlion of 

 it in water will purge upwards and downward?, 

 and dcftroy worms. 



fyhatifus L. coriaceus repens laciniatus lacunofiis, peltis mar- 



59. ginalibus adicendentibus. Lin. fyft. nat. edit. 13. 



p. 808. Utidf. FL Ang. p. 45 j, {Dillen. mufc. t. 



27./. 10 1. MichcLgen^ L 43. Ord. 11. foliis ni- 



mis /mis.) 



Villous- wood Lichen. Anglis. 



In Ihady woods about the roots of trees frequent, 



as in Glen-Eawood^ and other places about Kirk- 



mcbaely in Duvafriipjire, in plenty. Dr. Burgefs. 



The 



