Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . t is sometimes pounded and made into bread ; orit is prepared by boiling, the first water beingrejected. It is often boiled with milk, making akind of jelly, either with mUk or water. It is anagreeable article of food, and very suital)le forinvalids. It contains about 80 per cent, of a kindof starch called Lichen Starch, or Lichen in, andowes its bitterness to an acid principle, CetraricAcid.—An allied species, Cetraria 7iivalLi, growingin northern countries, possesses similar j)ro]) is very abundant in some parts of Icela
Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . t is sometimes pounded and made into bread ; orit is prepared by boiling, the first water beingrejected. It is often boiled with milk, making akind of jelly, either with mUk or water. It is anagreeable article of food, and very suital)le forinvalids. It contains about 80 per cent, of a kindof starch called Lichen Starch, or Lichen in, andowes its bitterness to an acid principle, CetraricAcid.—An allied species, Cetraria 7iivalLi, growingin northern countries, possesses similar j)ro]) is very abundant in some parts of Icelaml, ismuch used for food, and is called Marij^s Grans bythe Icelanders. ICHNEUMON {ITorpesfps), a genus of digiti-grade carnivorous qiiadrupeds of the family Vincr-ridie (q. v.), having a much elongated body, smallhead, sharp muzzle, rounded ears, and shoi-t species, which are i)retty numerous, are nativesof Africa and the warmer parts of Asia. One, theAxD.\LUSlAX I. (//. Widdrini/tonii), occurs in thesouth of Spain. They feed on small quadrupeds,. Esyptian Iclmcmnon [Hcrpestes Ichneumon). reptiles, eggs, and insects. Some of them, parti-cularly the Egyptian I. {//. Ichneumon) and theMangouste or Mungus (//. rjriseus) of India, havebeen greatly celebrated as destroyers of serj)ents andother noxious re])tiles, many wonderful fables lieingsuperadded to the truth on this subject. The Egyp-tian I., the I. of the ancients, is larger than a cat,gray, with black paws and muzzle, and a black tuftof diverging hairs at the end of the tail. It alionndsin Lower Egypt, but in Up])er Egypt it is compar-atively rare. It often enters houses, and devourspoultry and their eggs. With noiseless glidingmotion it advances on serpents until it can suddenly ICHNEUMON—ICHNOLOGY. seize them behind the head, where its long sharpteeth iurtict a fatal wound. It scratches up the sand for the eggs of crocodiles, which it eats with 1great avidity. It was a sacred animal among theancient Egyptian
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