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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 868

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, the tiny, red-tippedbranches of the coxcomb lichen. Rock-tripe, another lichen, has been eaten in the arctic re-gions in times of famine. Reindeer moss sup-plies the reindeer with winter food. It growsin thick patches on the ground, and the reindeerpaw aside the snow to obtain it. Beautiful… … THE KOClv IKIPF OR F\MI^EilREAD LICHEN *Has often been the means of sa\mg the lives of arctic explorers,notably the members of the Franklin expedition, also of trappersand hunters in Canada and Alaska.—Schneider. uses—one, as a cure for hydrophobia; another, as a poison; and still others, to cure…

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