178 C H A P T E R 40, 
noticing at the fame time fuch as are refer- 
able to varieties ; and frequently fubjoining 
a number of critical obfervations. 5. The 
ufes of particular kinds, whether in the 
general ceconomy of nature, or in medicine, 
or the other arts and conveniences of life. 
A fummary view of the ufes of feveral kinds 
appears in the preface ; but in the body of 
the work, Dillenius has, with great dili- 
gence, collected numerous authorities on 
thefe heads ; which fufficiently evince, that 
this almoft unnoticed tribe of vegetables 
hold a more confiderable importance * in 
the fcale of utility, than a fuperficial view 
may fuggeft. 
When 
* Numerous proofs of the truth of this, obfervation oc- 
cur in the various writings of modern botanifts. I refer 
the reader to the Flora Lapponica^ and Succica; to Hal- 
LER's Hijioria Stirpium Helvetia-^ to the Amoenitates 
Academka ; particularly to thofe papers under the titles 
of Oeconomia Natura^ and TJfus Mufcoru?n, I may per- 
haps be allowed to refer alfo to a A/m^/r, which I was in- 
duced to collect fome years ago on the Lichens alone, 
which was printed in the Philofophical Tranja^tons^ vol, 
50. On the ufes of the fame genus, may alfo be con-' 
fulted Tentamen Hiftorias Lichenum^ ei prepfertim T^rujjlcorwn 
of Hagen, printed at Zij/^/Vz/^tTf, 1782. 8^3 butaboye 
