Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 132
y the boys and girls. It is boiled in milkand eaten. Fanny Bergen, in her little bookon Plant Life, tells us that the Indians guidedthemselves through the trackless forests by ob-serving on which sides of the trees the lichensgrew thickest, those being the northern sides. Ruskin thus beautifully… … THE STAR-LICHEN. 648 MUSHROOMS, LICHENS, AND MOULDS. ness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in sioned rock, they share also its endurance. Far frost. To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted, above, among the mountains, the silver lichen is intrusted the weaving of the dark, eternal spots rest…
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