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the dingy walls of thickly populated cities to the crevices 
and caves of our wildest mountain solitudes. It is difficult 
to establish it on a town rockery, but grows pretty freely 
in a greenhouse. 
USES. 
In addition to the virtues of the other spleenworts Gerard 
considered this an excellent diuretic, and he adds — “It is 
commended against ruptures in young children, • and some 
affirme it to be excellent good, if the powder thereof be taken 
continually for forty dales together.’^ 
LOCALITIES. 
Old walls, rocks, &c. Womersley, Sandal, Thor nes, 
Newmillerdam, NosteU, Stanley, Heath. 
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