y. Mufcus aridus cruftatis. Crudie dry Mode or Liverwort. 
This kinde alfo doth not much differ in forme or colour from the former, but in being dryer or more crudie or 
hard, growing oftentimes as well on trees as one the deft pales, and Ihingles of Oaken boards, as alio fortietimes 
upon the Hones and rockeson the ground,and fometimes alfo upon the very ordinary Moffeit lelfe, as Sir Mat- 
tbew Ljjlcr one o( hisMajefties Phyfitians affured me, and fent me ,fome to fee which he gathered in fvindfor 
Forreft. 
8. CHufcus ex cranio humane. The Moffe upon dead mens Sculles. 
Let me here alfo adjoyne this kinde of Moffe, not having any fitter place to infert it. It is a whitifh 
fhort kinde of Moffe fomewhat like unto the Moffe of trees, and groweth upon the bare fealpes of men and 
women that have lyen long,and arc kept in Charnell houfes in divers Countries, which hach not onely beene 
in former times much accounted of, becaufe it is rare and hardly gotten, butin ourtimes much more fc by,to 
make the Vngucntum Sjmpatbcticum, which cureth wounds without locall application of falves, the competition 
whereof is put as a principal! ingredient, but as Crollius hath it, it fhould be taken from the (culls of thufe ihat 
have beene hanged or executed tor offences. 
.1 The place and Time. \ 
The firfl is found in many Forre&s and Woods in this Land, but the placesof the fecond and third are Italy, 
as the fourth is alfo, the reft areas ufuall to our Land as to others, hutthelafl is ofcr.er brought out of Ireland 
than found with us, and they are to be gathered in the Summertime. 
The Names. 
I have (he wed you before how the Greckes and Latines called the Moffes, which names indeede doe more 
properly belong to theie tree Moffes, .for, I cannot finde that any of the ancients made any account of the ground 
Moffes, or put them to any ufe, the effrabians called it Axnec and Vfnec , and by the Apothecaries Vfnea, the Ita¬ 
lians CMofco, the French A6>tijfe,the Germaines Mooff, and the Dutch Mofch. Thefirft here fee downc is called 
Mufcus arboreta and Afnfcsu rjuernsu ;by mod writers: the fecond third and fourth are remembred by Colttmna : 
the fifth is generally called pu/manaria by mod writers ofthis latter age (for it is thought it was nor k.iowne to 
the elder times J but without didinftion almod, whereby many were middled, taking one herbe for another, 
becaufe there are divers included under that name, and therefore Lobel to didinguifh it called it Mufcm pnlmorm- 
riue , and others PuImamtriafunoofa,ox Lichcuurenuf, and yet feme more properly Lichen arborum, the feverith 
becanle it is a dryerfubftance, is to called as it is in the title, and as I take it is Columna his Lichen Diofcoridss and 
Plinii altera , putting a difference betweene them, this of trees and that on the ground by thefe titles Lichen folio- 
fum being that of the ground, and Lichen adherens being this of the trees. 
T he Vertues. 
The Vertues that the ancients attributed unto Moffe, are wholly to be. underdood concerning thefe of trees, 
being cooling and binding, and partake of a digeding and mollifying quality withall, as Galen faith, Specially that 
of the great Ccder, for each Moffe doth much partake of the nature of the tree, from whence it is taken, as thae 
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