. First forms of vegetation. Botany; Cryptogams. 178 FIRST FORMS OF VEGETATION. stituted for the rare and expensive foreign orchils. Many of them have been known to the rural in- habitants from time immemorial. The parti-col- oured and often exceedingly beautiful tartans of the Highland clans, used to be dyed with the col- ouring matter derived from the common grey foli- aceous lichens which so plentifully clothe almost every tree and wall; and many an old woman in the remote parts of Scotland, skilled in the medi- cinal and dyeing properties of the various plants. Fig. i6.—Lecanora tartarea.
. First forms of vegetation. Botany; Cryptogams. 178 FIRST FORMS OF VEGETATION. stituted for the rare and expensive foreign orchils. Many of them have been known to the rural in- habitants from time immemorial. The parti-col- oured and often exceedingly beautiful tartans of the Highland clans, used to be dyed with the col- ouring matter derived from the common grey foli- aceous lichens which so plentifully clothe almost every tree and wall; and many an old woman in the remote parts of Scotland, skilled in the medi- cinal and dyeing properties of the various plants. Fig. i6.—Lecanora tartarea. that grow around her humble home, still prefers the dyes she herself prepares, by simply boiling in water heather twigs, birch leaves, roots of the ruadh or yellow bed-straw, or the various species of crotal or lichens, to logwood, madder, indigo, copperas, or any other of the imported dyes of the shops ; and the results she produces, by a skilful combination of these simple substances, are really astonishing; many of the stuffs which have under- gone her primitive dyeing process, being as bril- liant and lasting in colour as those which have. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Macmillan, Hugh, 1833-1903; Macmillan, Hugh, 1833-1903. Footnotes from the page of nature. London, Macmillan
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