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ren places ; except the orcelle , or Canary- weed, which 
is found upon the rocks on the fea-coaft. 
To this division belongs the horned mofs ( 19). It 
is found with us in rocky barren ground, and upon 
old walls not uncommon. It was formerly in great 
credit as a pectoral ; but is now quite in difrepute. 
The common branched coralline-mofs (20) is one 
of the moft ufeful plants of all the tribe of lichens. 
It is pretty frequent with us on our heaths, forefts, 
and mountains. The northern regions afford it in 
abundance ; and there it is peculiarly and Angularly 
ufeful. It is indeed the very fupport and foundation 
of all the Lapland ceconomy, and without which the 
inhabitants could not fuftain their rein-deer in the 
winter time. Linnaeus tells us (1), that Lapland 
affords no vegetables in fuch plenty as this, and other 
of the lichens. Plains of feveral miles extent are to- 
tally covered over with it, as if with fnow j and 
where no other plant will even take root, this will 
thrive and be luxuriant. Thefe dreary and inclement 
waftes, thefe terra; damnatce y as a foreigner would 
readily call them ; thefe, are the Lapland fields and 
fertile paftures. On this lichen the rein-deer, thofe 
fources of all their wealth, feed in the winter time, 
when it is in its moft flourifhing condition, and no 
(19) Coralloides corniculis longioribus et rarioribus. Dillcn. Hift. 
Mufc. p. 103. Mufcus corniculatus Ger. p. 1372. Park. 1308. 
Raii Hift. I. p. 112. III. p. 28. Lichenoides tubulofum cinereum 
minus crujiaceum minufque ramofum Raii Syn. 3. p. 67. 
(20) Coralloides montanum fruticuli fpecie ubique candicans Hift. 
Mufc. p. 107. Lichen rangiferinus Lin. Sp. PI. 1153. Mufcus 
corallinus. Tab. Ger. em. 
(1) Flor, Lappon. p. 332. 
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