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enough to employ them to any purpofes of the like 
nature in our own country, they might be procured 
in fufficient plenty. 
One of the plants of this order is applicable to the 
fame ufes as the Canary-weed, and is reckoned not 
much inferior to it j and as it is found in the fame 
places, it is very often packed up with it in con- 
fiderable quantities. Dillenius calls it The flat dyers 
lichenoides with longer and Jharper horns (io). It is 
truly and properly a plant of the lichen genus, tho’ 
the older writers of the laft century called it a fucus. 
They were led into this miftake by its having flat 
ramifications, and from its growing on the rocks by 
the fea fide. It is found in the Eaft Indies upon trees, 
and is frequent on the coafts of the Mediterranean, 
as well as about the Canary Iflands. 
7. Lichenes peltati. 
Such as confift of a tough or coriaceous matter , dif- 
pofed into a foliaceous appearance j on the edges 
of which , in general , the parts of fr unification 
are placed , in the form of flat ttfh oblong bodies t 
in thefe mofl'es called fhields or pelts. 
This divifion contains the third feries of the fecond 
order of Dillenius’s lichenoides*, the lichenes coriacei 
of Linnaeus j and feveral of the placodium of Hill. 
That celebrated and well-known plant, the afh- 
(10) Lichenoides fuciforme t ini] or turn corniculis longioribus et acu - 
tioribus. Hift. Mufc. 108. Platyfma corniculutum. Hill Hilt. Plant. 
90. Lichen fuciformis Lin. Sp. Pi. 1147. 
coloured 
