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ifle of Aland in the Baltick ; where the good women 
themfelves make a yellow dye with it from a fimple 
decodtion of the plant, without the addition of any 
faline article. He adds, that thofe, who would 
heighten the colour, add a lmall quantity of roucou (*) 
to the decodtion. 
Profeffor Linnasus tells us, that the Gothlanders 
manufacture a yellow dye from the common curled 
lichenoides with yellow leaves and plates (6). He 
adds, that it is a celebrated medicine in the efteem 
of the country people, as a fpecific in the jaundice (7). 
Helwingius, in the Supplement to the Flora PruJJica , 
affirms, that this mols will tinge paper and linen of 
a lively carnation colour, which too will ftand the 
teft of being expofed to the open fun for a long time 
without fading. It feems very probable, however, that 
he muff mean fome other plant of this genus, as 
Dillenius tells us he made the experiment unfucceff- 
fully. 
Sweden affords a mofs of this order, which, as 
far as hitherto appears, feems to be unknown to 
former botanifls, and which Linnaeus fays will dye a 
deep purple colour (8). 
(*) Otherwife called arnotto. 
(6) Lichenoides vulgare fmuofum foliis et fcutellis luteis. Hift. 
Mufc. p. 180. Lichenoides crujla fotiofa fcutcllata flavejcens. Raii 
Syn. P-72. N°. 59. 
(7) Flor. Suec. Ed. II. p. 416. N°. 1093. 
(8) Linnaeus has intitled this mofs Lichen (Jlygius) imhricatus y 
folio is palmatis incurvis atris. FI. Suec. I. 949. Spec. Plant. 1 143. 
FI. Suec. II. N°. 1079. 
6. Lichenes 
