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ning, and various gummy derivatives have been used in 

 making pasteboard, parchment, and in weaving and calico 

 printing. No extended use of lichens in a commercial way- 

 has ever prevailed in America. The early settlers did, how- 

 ever, bring their "dye-pots" with them, and a tradition of my 

 own family unmistakably points to the use of crottle dyes. 



