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is got by dyeing with 8 lbs. cudbear, 1/2 lb. logwood (for 30 lbs. wool). _To dye Yellow on Linen with the Lichen Peltigera canina_ (a large flat lichen growing on rocks in woods). Mordant with alum (1/4 lb. to a lb. of linen) boil for 2 hours. Then boil up with sufficient quantity of the lichen till the desired colour is got. LIST OF LICHENS USED BY THE PEASANTRY OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES FOR WOOL DYEING[D] SHADES OF RED, PURPLE AND ORANGE _Borrera ashney._ Chutcheleera. India. _Conicularia aculeata._ var. _spadicea._ Brown prickly cornicularia. Canary Islands, Highland Mountains. _Evernia prunastri._ Ragged hoary Lichen. Stag's horn Lichen. Found in Scotland on trees. _Isidium corallinum._ White crottle. On rocks in Scotland. _I. Westringii._ Westring's Isidium. Norway and Sweden. _Lecanora tartarea._ Crotal, Crottle, Corkur, Corcir, Korkir. Found in the Scotch Highlands and Islands, growing on rocks; used for the manufacture of Cudbear in Leith and Glasgow. _L. parella._ Light Crottle, Crabs Eye Lichen. Found in Scotland, France and England, on rocks and trees; formerly celebrated in the South of France in the making of the dye called Orseille d'Auvergne. _L. haematomma._ Bloody spotted lecanora, Black lecanora. Found in Scotland on rocks and trees. _Lecidea sanguinaria._ Red fruited lecidea. In Scotland, on rocks. _Nephroma parilis._ Chocolate coloured nephroma. Scotland, on stones. Said to dye blue. _Parmelia caperata._ Stone Crottle, Arcel. Found in North of Ireland and Isle of Man, on trees. Said to dye brown, orange lemon and yellow. _P. conspersa._ Sprinkled parmelia. Found growing on rocks in England. _P. omphalodes._ Black Crottle, Cork, Corker, Crostil or Crostal (Scotch Highlands). Arcel (Ireland). Kenkerig (Wales). Alaforel leaf (Sweden). Found on rocks, especially Alpine, in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Scandinavia. One of the most extensively used dye lichens. It yields a dark brown dye readily to boiling water, and it is easily fixed to yarns by simple mordants. It is stated to yield a red, crimson or purple dye. _P. saxatilis._ Crottle, stane-raw, Staney-raw (Scotland). Scrottyie (Shetland). Sten-laf, Sten-mossa (Norway and Sweden). Found on rocks and stones in Scotland, Shetland
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