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CONTENTS<br />

B. LICHENS AS MEDICINE ...... 45<br />

a. Ancient remedies<br />

b. Doctrine of "signatures"<br />

c. Cure for hydrophobia<br />

d. Popular remedies<br />

C. LICHENS AS POISONS ..... . . 410<br />

D. LICHENS USED IN TANNING, BREWING AND DISTIL-<br />

LING ....... . . .411<br />

E. DYEING PROPERTIES OF LICHENS . . . .411<br />

a. Lichens as dye-plants<br />

b. The orchil lichen, Roccella<br />

c. Purple dyes : orchil, cudbear and litmus<br />

d. Other orchil lichens<br />

e. Preparation of orchil<br />

f. Brown and yellow dyes<br />

g. Collecting of dye-lichens<br />

h. Lichen colours and spectrum characters<br />

F. LICHENS IN PERFUMERY ...... 418<br />

a. Lichens as perfumes<br />

b. Lichens as hair-powder<br />

G. SOME MINOR USES OF LICHENS .... 420<br />

APPENDIX ....... .- . 421<br />

ADDENDUM ...... , 422<br />

BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . ...<br />

INDEX .<br />

. . . . . ...<br />

... 423<br />

448

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