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fares and chaps of the fkin, the pain and anguifh of which it re- 

 lieves by its remarkable emollient and anodyne powers *. 



44. Creeping Cyprefs-Mofs, or Heath-Mofs (ivj, is frequent on Che- 

 viot, in places fomewhat wet. It creeps on the ground, like the 

 former, and is branched in a dichotomous manner, fometimes 

 with five, fix, or feven fhort ramifications, two inches long. The 

 younger plants are of a lively green. The older ones are more 

 upright, and yellowifh. The fhort juliferous fpikes are of a 

 flraw-colour. The fructifications are between the fcales in reni- 

 form bilocular capfules, like a fmall yellow powder, perfected 

 in September. 



45. Upright Fir-Mofs (x) is plentiful among the moid rocks un- 

 der the Roman wall, on the weft fide of Shewing-Jbttls ; alfo among 



the 



* " Vis ifta mitigans & anodyna procul dubio a mechanica figura particularum oritur, 

 " unico, quod fciam, exemplo virium medicarum per mechanica principia evidentiflime ex- 

 " plicatarum." HALLER. 1. c. 



(w) Mufcus clavatus foliis CUPRESSI. C. B. Pin. p< 3^9. Raj. Hift. r. p. 121. Mufcus 

 teueftris ramofus pulcher. /. B. iii. p. 767. Mufcus terreftris, cupreflinus, nanus, ftirienfis. 

 Scbeiiclz. It. i. p. 43. Lycopoditnn foliis quadrifarium imbricatis acutis, furculis ereclis, di- 

 rhotomis fpicis feffilibus teretibus. Linn, Sp. PI. 1104. Lycopodium caule repente, ramis 

 tetragonis. Flo. Lapp. n. 417. t. 91. f. 6. Flo. Suec. n. 861. Hort. Cliff, p. 476. 

 Roycn lugdb. p. 506. Hall. Helv. p. 93. Lycopodium SABINA facie. Raj, Syn. iii. 

 p 108. n. 3. Dill. Hift. Mufc. p. 455. t. 58. f. 2. 



(x) Mufcus erelus ramofus faturate viridis. C. B. Pin. p. 360. Mufcus terreftris 

 Abieti-formis. Rnj. Hift, i. p. 121. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 624. f. 15. t. 5. f. 9. Selago foliis 

 & facie ABIETIS. Rupp. Flo. Jen. p. 330. Raj. Syn. iii. p. 106. Hall. He!v. p. 94. 

 Mufcus terreftris. Scheucbz. It. i. p. 44. t. vi. f. 2. vb! fofeults, nefj} quo', dfcribit. Se- 

 la'ro ttrtia THALII. Breyn. Eph. Nat. Cur. Dec. i. An. iv. v. Obf. 149. cum bona Icone. 

 Lycopodium fcliis fparfis oftifarii?, furculo dichotomo erefto faftigiato, floribus fpaifis. Linn. 



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