240 W. Lauder Lindsay’s Haperiments on the 
TABLE 
Showing the effects or reaction of Solution of Chloride of Lime and 
NAME OF GENUS. 
Alectoria, 
Beomyces, 
Borrera, 
Cetraria, 
Cladonia, 
Collema, 
Cornicularia, . 
Endocarpon, 
Kvernia, 
Gyrophora, 
Isidium, 
Lecanora, 
Lecidea, 
Lepraria, 
Nephroma, 
Parmelia, 
Peltidea, 
Pertusaria, 
Placodium, 
Psora, 
Ramalina, 
Roccella, 
Scyphophorus 
Solorina, 
Spheerophoron, 
Spiloma, 
Squamaria, 
Stereocaulon . 
Sticta, 
Thelotrema 
Umbilicaria, 
Urceolaria, 
Usnea, 
Variolaria, 
Verrucaria, 
Reaction of Chloride of Lime. 
Green-yellow 
deepened. 
No. of Per No 
Species. Centage.* . 
45:0 
2 148 
5 33:5 
a "1D 
“2 166 
“5 90-0 
“2 835 
8 16°8 
5 8°5 
‘1 20-0 
7 =.21°3 
1 8:9 
1 eG 
1 25°0 
“5 200 
12 32-2 
1 20:0 
2 34:3 
“5 336 
1 14°3 
1 9°1 
“6 300 
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Bleached. 
eS 
— bet | 
pe: 
oo: 
me 
Pr. <. 
36+1 
20-0 
25:3 
5:8 
5-2 
tint on the 
Brown or Brown- 
yellow Tint. 
No. 
mb: 
bom: 
Pie. 
These results may be considered negative so far as regards the object of my 
of conversion, by chemical means, into useful colouring matters, 
* The percentage is only to be accepted as a very rough indication, and 
number of specimens (not species) operated on, there is only an approximation 
