. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . lfu8 Now, as we know 1832 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART II quently found on the oak in the neighbourhood of Vienna, and is supposedby some to
. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . lfu8 Now, as we know 1832 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART II quently found on the oak in the neighbourhood of Vienna, and is supposedby some to be the mistletoe of the druids. (See our art. riscum, p. 1021.) The principal Lichens that are found on the oak are what are vulgarly calledthe lungs of the oak, and its moss. The lichens sold under the name of the lungsof the oak are, Sticta pulnionacea and S. scrobiculata; 1559 and they are still much in demand in Covent Gardenmarket, and other places, as a cure for consumption,and all disorders of the chest. S. pulnionacea Ach.,syn. Z/ichen pulmonarius Sow. Eng. Bot., t. 572.,and our Jig. 1659., is most plentiful in the northernor mountainous countries, where it clothes the trunksof old oaks with a rich leafy garment. The frondsgrow a little Imbricate, but are considerably raisedfrom the bark, into which their leaves are are leathery, green, deeply divided, irregularly and bluntly lobed, stronglypitted ; the interstices forming a kind of network, which, towards the mai-ginof the frond,
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