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The long beaded ufnca , or necklace-mofs (12), 
enters into the like ceconomical ufes in Virginia, 
where it is very plentiful. The inhabitants find it a 
very agreeable fodder in the winter feafon to both 
fheep and cows (13). 
The Norwegians appropriate one of thefe ufnea to 
a fingular ufe. Pontoppidan tells us (14), “ they 
“ have a certain kind of yellow mofs hanging on 
<c the branches of trees of the firs and pines, which 
cc is very venomous, yet applied to a necefiary ufe r 
“ for being mixed in pottage, or with flefh, as a 
* c bait for the wolves, they infallibly die of it.” That 
the fpecies here referred to is the brafs-wired ufnea 
of Dillenius (15), or the lichen vulpinus of Linnaeus, 
cannot be doubted, fince this laft author mentions 
(16) the fame application of it with very little varia- 
tion. In England it is very rare - t in Sweden plem 
tiful, efpecially in the province of Smoland, where 
the natives dye woollen goods yellow with it. 
John Bauhine defcribes a very beautiful fpecies, 
under the name of laricus mu feus (17), which gives 
a very elegant citron colour upon chewing, or upon 
maceration in water. Dillenius is doubtful, whether 
this is what he has deferibed under the name of the 
orange-coloured forked ufnea (18). 
■ (12) JJjnea capi/lacea et nodofa Dillen. Ilift. Mule. 60. AJufus 
arboreus nodofus C. B. p. 361. Raii Syn. III. p. 65. n. 4. 
(13) Rail Hift. PI. ill. p. 28. 
(14) Natural Hiftory of Norway, p. 148. 
( i 5) Ufnea capi'lacea ciirina f utrlculi Jpecie. Hift. Mufc. p. 73. 
Mufcus aureus tenuiffmus Merret. Pin. p. 79. Raii fyn. p. 65. n°. 8. 
(16) Flor. Suec. Ed. II. p. 427. 
(17) Hift. Plant. 111 . P. ii. lib. 9. p. 273. 
(18) Ufnea dickotoma comprcjfa fegmentis capillacels teretlbus . Hift, 
Mufc. 72. Mufcus arboreus (furantiacus Ji a minibus tenuiffimis Pluk. 
Aim. p. 25*1-. Raii Hift. III. 28. 
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