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colours, as to be considered indispensable by the dyers; 

 nevertheless its consumption has very much decreased of 

 late. The imports are about 600 tons per annum. 



Eock Moss. — Under this name we have occasional im- 

 ports of another lichen, Lecanora tartarea (Plate XIII. 

 fig. 70). It is used to make the article called Cudbear, 

 which is employed in the same way as archil. Cudbear 

 however, besides being in the liquid form, is dried and 

 made into cakes, called cudbear paste; and is also pre- 

 served by dipping linen rags to absorb the colour; these 

 are then dried, and form a considerable article of commerce. 



Tisso Plowers. — The dried flowers of Butea frondosa. 

 (Nat. Ord. Leguminosa.) 



These flowers are much used in the East Indies to 

 produce beautiful orange and yellow dyes, and the author 

 has seen one importation into Liverpool, consisting of a 

 small parcel introduced experimentally under the name of 

 Kessaree flowers. 



Myrobalans (commercially Myrabolams) . — The dried 

 fruit of Terminalia Chebula. (Nat. Ord. Combretacece.) 

 (Plate XIII. fig. 68.) 



The Myrobalan is an oval fruit of the shape of a nutmeg, 

 but generally twice as large; they are of a dingy yellow 



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