First Forms of Vegetation
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And it shows to us that the colourable matter is formed and excreted on the outside of the gonidial layer, there being but feeble traces of it towards the in- terior of the lichen or in the medullary layer ; in this respect differing from other lichens, which contain the colourable matter underneath the gonidial layer and not upon it or in its exterior, so that it is necessary to cut their thallus and ex- pose the medullary layer, whenever we wish to subject them to the test of the hypochlorite... of lime.
In this country there are many species of lichens, growing in greater or less abundance, on the moun- tain rocks, which might be advantageously sub- M 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.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
And it shows to us that the colourable matter is formed and excreted on the outside of the gonidial layer, there being but feeble traces of it towards the in- terior of the lichen or in the medullary layer ; in this respect differing from other lichens, which contain the colourable matter underneath the gonidial layer and not upon it or in its exterior, so that it is necessary to cut their thallus and ex- pose the medullary layer, whenever we wish to subject them to the test of the hypochlorite... of lime.
In this country there are many species of lichens, growing in greater or less abundance, on the moun- tain rocks, which might be advantageously sub- M 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.
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