OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



The horned mofies were formerly ufed for coughs and difficulty 

 of breathing, but are now not regarded. 



13. White coralline Mofs, or Rein-Deer Mofs (I). On heaths, and 

 about moifl rocks, plentifully. It is of a bright white, very 

 much branched, foft and tender in its younger ftate. The fruc- 

 tifications are on the fibrils of the more robuft plants, firfl of a. 

 glofly brown, and afterwards black, in the form of tubercles, 

 but they are rarely feen. It is of great ufe in the Lapland-* 

 oeconomy, being the food of the Rein-deer in winter. They 

 become fat with it, and give plenty of good milk, of which both 

 butter and cheefe are made. In defecl: of it, they are fed with 

 the Mac k Mane^Ufnea *, 



14. Brtown+tipt) ttibulous, coralline Mofs (m). On moift rocks, and 

 fometimes on the ground with the former. On the rocks at Shit- 



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(!) Lichen cdralloides, tubulofus, major, candidus, ramofiflimus, receptaculis, florum 

 Vefufcentibus, perexiguis. Michel. Ord. vi. n. i. p. 79. t. 40. f. I. Hall. Helv. p. 6g. 

 Mufcus corallinus f.. Coralloides montana. Tabern. Icon. p. 810. Pet. n. 76. Mufcus 

 coralloides. /. B. iii. p. 865. Mufcus coralloides, f. cornutus montanus. C. B. Pin. 

 p. 361. Lichcnoides tubulofum, ramofiflimum, frudiculi fpecie, candicans. Dill. GifT. 

 p. 202. Raj. Syn. iii. p. 66. n. 14. Mufco-fungus coralloides montanus ramofiffimus ci- 

 nereus vulgaris. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 633. f. 15. t. 7. f. 9. Coralloides corniculis candi- 

 tliffimis. Tourn. Inft. p. 565. Lichen frudticulofus perforatus ramofiffimus, ramulis nu- 

 tantibus. Linn. Flo k Suec. n. 98. Lichen caule erefto tereti ramofiffimo, alis perforatis. 

 Flo. Lapp. n. 437. Royen. lugdb. p. 511. Coralloides montanum fruticuli fpecie ubiqua 

 candicans. DHL Hift. Mufc. p. 107. t. 16. f. 29. 



* Hoc mufco RANGIFERI fere pafcuntur. Inde forte iis animalibus lac pinguiffimum, 

 & ex eo butyrum fcbi fere odere, cafeus vero copiofiflime paratur. Linn. Flo. Lapp. n. 437. 

 & n. 163. 



(m] Lichenoides tubulofum ramofifiimu'nn, fruticuli fpecie candicah?, corniculis refuf- 

 centibus. Dill. GiiT. p. 203. Raj. Syn. iii. p. 67. n. 15. Coralloides fruticuli fpccies 

 candicans, corniculis refufcentibus. Dill. Hift. Mu'b. p, no. t. 16. f. 30. 



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