. A guide to the study of lichens. x. X 9/x. This is the Steu-laf of Sweden and Norway,where it was used to dye thread, yarn, etc., a brown orreddish-brown color. In Scotland it is one of themost common crottles and is also known as Stane-raw or Staney-rag. Not only do the peasantryuse it but it would appear upon the evidence of theborder ballads that the border fairies were dressed intunics dyed with this lichen. Like the feld-elfin of the Saxons, the usual dressof the fairies is green; though on the moors they havebeen sometimes observed in heath-brown, or in weedsdyed with Stane-raw or lich
. A guide to the study of lichens. x. X 9/x. This is the Steu-laf of Sweden and Norway,where it was used to dye thread, yarn, etc., a brown orreddish-brown color. In Scotland it is one of themost common crottles and is also known as Stane-raw or Staney-rag. Not only do the peasantryuse it but it would appear upon the evidence of theborder ballads that the border fairies were dressed intunics dyed with this lichen. Like the feld-elfin of the Saxons, the usual dressof the fairies is green; though on the moors they havebeen sometimes observed in heath-brown, or in weedsdyed with Stane-raw or lichen. This lichen wasalso used in medicine as an astringent; by the ancientsit appears to have enjoyed a celebrity as a sovereignremedy for epilepsy and the plague. — Lindsay. 6. Parmelia Borreri. Thallus large, lobes rounded,with crenulate margin, bearing a few black cilia ; uppersurface bearing numerous warty (isidioid) outgrowths,bluish-green color, no soralia; lower surface light-brown to whitish with black rhizoids. Apothecia.
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