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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. 



Rock 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 Elowees. — The dried flowers of Butea frondosa, 

 (Nat. Ord. Legtminos(E.) 



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 Myraholaws). — The dried 

 fruit of Terminalia CJiehula, (Nat. Ord. Comhretacece.) 

 (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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