OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



For the firfl difcovery of the fructifications of ferns in England, 

 we are indebted to a curious and fagacious naturalift of Brijlol, 

 Dr. William Cole, who gave an account of it to the fecretary of 

 the Royal Society, Dr. Robert Hook, Sept. soth 1669. The learned 

 Sivammerdam has an epiftolary diflertation on the feed of the 

 male-fern in his Biblia Nature, and at the end of it a curious en- 

 graving, reprefenting the feed-veflels, their mechanifm, and the 

 feed as viewed by a good magnifier. 



MoJJes and Submarines are numerous. I mall only take notice 

 of fuch as are of oeconomical ufe, or curious, according to my 

 propofed plan. 



I. Long, implicated Tree-Mofs, or Ufnea of the Jh ops (u). On the 

 fteep perpendicular precipices at great JVaneyhoufe-crag, in great 

 abundance. It is five or fix inches long. The fructifications are 

 in the form offcutelfo, or difhes, on the fides and at the extremi- 

 ties of the more robuft and rigid plants. It was a principal in- 

 gredient in the famous perfumed powder, called Pulvis Cyprius j 

 formerly of fo great account at Montpelier in France, as to form a 

 confiderable article of trade *. The Laplanders ufe it for their feet 

 after much fatigue in walking. It is faid to be a rare plant in 

 England -\. It varies in its form according to its age, being very 



(u) Mufcus arboreus, Ufnea OFFICINARUM. C. B. Pin. p. 361. Raj. Hift. i. p. 114. 

 Syn. iii. p. 64. n. i, &c. Dal. Pharm. p. 59. Lichen longiffimus, ex cinereo candicans, 

 rugofus, mollior, receptaculis florum refufcentibus. Michel. Nov. PI. Gen. Ord. v. n. 2. 

 t. 39. f. 2. Hall. Helv. p. 70. n. 4. Mufcus arboreus ramofus longiflimus cinereus. 

 Scheuchz. It. vii. p. 514. Lichen ramis filiformibus ramofis pendulis confertis. Linn.Ylo. 

 Lapp. n. 457. Lichen filamentofus pendulus, ramis implexis, fcutellis radiatis. Flo. Suec. 

 n. 984. Ufnea vulgaris loris longis implexis. Dill. Hift. Mufc'. p. 56. t. u. f. I. 



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