An Enumeration of North American Lichenes With a Preliminary View of the Struct
An Enumeration of North American Lichenes With a Preliminary View of the Struct
Edward Tuckerman
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" There remains only to mention the universally known Iceland Moss (Cetraria Islandica) of which Proust has said, that "Nature can hardly furnish a more excellent article of food. " This affords to the Icelanders both soup and bread, and, with Cetraria nival is, is considered "wholesome, nourishing, and extremely agreeable. " Indeed, Olafsen says, that they reckon a ton of the flour of the Iceland Moss to be equal to half a ton of ordinary flour or meal. I pass over other species which might he...re be referred to, and proceed to consider, lastly, the uses of Lichenes in the Arts. And here, well remarks Fries, almost all that is known has been owing to the Northern the Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, and German nations, whom necessity constrained to value and to improve all of Nature's gifts. Throughout the North, lichens have been used as dye-stuffs from remote antiquity, and are still, to a great extent. Swedish writers have illustrated at large the whole matter, and es- 43 pecially Westring in his Svenska Lafvarnas Farghistoria, Stockh.
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