CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^. ^g^ 



BYSSUS. Gen. pi. 120S. 



Lanugo ant Pulvis rimplicifTimus. 



* Filamentof^, 



feptica I. BYSSUS capillacea moUiffima parallela fragilifll- 

 ma, pallida. Syjl.nat. edit. i'^. p. 819. (Michel. 

 gen. pag. iii.n. 10. t. 89./. 9. bona. Billen. 

 mufc. p. 6. t. I./. 12. A. B. opt. et fortajfe t. i, 



f-9-) 



The Moufe Skin Caflc Byffus. Anglis. 



In wine-vaults, upon the cafks and walls fre- 

 quent. 



This, at its firft appearance, is white, and refem- 

 bles flakes of fnow; afterwards it turns yel- 

 low, and laftof all blackifh, foft, and fpongy, 

 very like a moufe's fkin. In this ftate, Wih^n 

 grown old, it has fometimes black grains at its 

 bafe like gun-powder. 



If fuflered to remain any long time upon the 

 cafl^s, it decays the titnber very much. 



In its lafl black and foit ftare it is excellent to 

 {launch blood, perhaps fuperior even to the 

 celebrated Agaric. 



jlos aqute I. BYSSUS filamentis plumofis natantibus, Sp. pL 

 1637. {Fig nulla.) 

 Green Paper ByfTus. Anglis. 



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