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niit, for as a rule tliey prefer retaining this disease, under 
the belief that it keeps away others that would certainly 
follow if the Plica Polonica were cured. Said to restore 
ropy wine in a few days. The pollen (spores) is very inflam- 
mable and used in theatres to imitate lightning, hence in 
Grermany and elsewhere it is said to be extensively used in 
the manufacture of flreworks. It (the pollen) repels water 
so strongly, that if it be spread on the surface, the hand can 
be plunged to the bottom of a basin of that liquid without 
wetting it. It is used in delicate works to keep the hands 
from perspiring. 
LOCALITY. 
Dry heaths and hilly districts. This plant has not been 
re-discovered in the immediate neighbourhood of Wakefleld 
since 1857, when Mr. C. P. Tootal found a single specimen 
on Heath Common. 
Plate XX. 
