148 NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. 



where they may have their fill of the beft grafs. Without plenty 

 of mofsj and feeking for it in their natural freedom, they fenfibly 

 linger away. Befides this, our peafants make a deception from 

 many kinds of mofs, which is difpoled of to the dyers ; this is 

 here called Borke, and makes a good red and brown dye for vad- 

 mel, the coarfeft fort of cloth ufually worne by the peafants. 

 There is moreover a certain kind of yellow mofs hanging on the 

 branches of firs and pines, which is very venomous, yet applied to 

 a neceffary ufe, for being mixed in pottage, or with fieih, as a 

 bait for the wolves, they infallibly die of it. 



Of fungous vegetables, which are called by the general name 

 of Skuroe-harre, or Champignons, i. e. mufhrooms, feveral forts 

 are to be found here, as in Denmark and other places, particu- 

 larly thofe which are dried and fold by the name of Markler (the 

 lame which in England are called mufhrooms.) Thefe grow in 

 the neighbourhood of Bufkerud in Hedemark and other places, 

 and are bought up by the curious to fend abroad J. 



CHAP. VI. 



Of the Sea- Vegetables of Norway. 



Sect. I. Sea-vegetables little known to us. Sect. II. Several fpecies of fea» 

 grafs. Sect. III. Various kinds of fea-trees. Sect. IV. Great and 

 fmall corals. 



SECT. I. 



bi e e a s" v iktie a " X-J JTHERTOjI have, to the extent of my knowledge, gives 

 known to us. J^A an account of the land- vegetables of Norway. As to thofe 

 of the fea, it would give me pleafure if I could gratify the reader's 

 curiofity with fome new difcoveries in this latent part of the 

 kingdom of nature. However, the little I have to offer is grounded 

 on my own experience in voyages, and the reports of intelli- 

 gent fea-faring perfons. But left this mould be thought a fubjeel: 

 of no utility, I mall introduce it with the following paffage from 



J This kind of fungus is ufually found under birch-trees. They are of a reddifh 

 colour, with little white fpecks, penetrating through them, fome call them Flue- 

 fvamp, i. e. fly-fponge, they being boiled in milk and fet out to deftroy flies j this 

 fungus being a ftrong poifon. 



3 that 



