CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^. 999 



BYSSUS. Gen. pi. 1208. 



rn Lanugo aut Puhis fimpliciflimus. 



* Filamentof^e. 



feptica I. BYSSUS capillacea mollilTima parallela fragilifll- 



.;: : . ma, pallida. Syji.nat. edit. i^.p. 819. (Michel, 



gen. pag. 211. n. lo. t.'S^.f. 9. l^ona. Dillen. 



mufc. p. 6. /. 1./. 12. A. B. opt. tt fortajje t. i. 



/. 90 



The Moufe Skin Can< Byffus. Anglis. ' 



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

 - , r . quent. 



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

 bles flakes of fnow, afterwards it turns yel- 

 low, and laft of all black ifli, fofr, and fpongy, 

 very like a moufe's fkin. In this ftate, when 

 grown old, it has fometimes black grains at its 

 bafe like gun-powder. 



If fuffered to remain any long time upon th? 

 cafi<s, it decays the timber very much. 



In its lafl black and foft ftare it is excellent to 

 {launch blood, perhaps fuperior even to the 

 cele orated Agaric. 



fiosaquax. BYSSUS filamentis plumofis natantibus. Sp.pl. 

 1637. (Fig nulla.) 

 Green Paper Byfllis. Anglis. 



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