STRANGE PLANTS.
LICHEN AND SEAWEED. Lichen flourishes in the Western Hemisphere. In Newfoundland it grows to an enormous extent. It hangs in profusion from the trunks of Newfoundland pines, and given the caribou the.r favorite and most sustaining food. Almost every tree is liclienous. This plant, which is a mixture of seaweed, and a fungus, flourishes only where the air is pure as w. 11 as moist. Lichen is never found near a manufacturing town whore there is dense smoke. Probably one day it will be possible to convert lichen into a food as seaweed is to-day in some places. Some varities of seaweed resemble Iceland moss in quality, and are useful for thickening soups and jellies. The seaweed whicn is found on the West Coast of Ireland is rich in bromine and iodine. In Sligo and Leitrim the Durning of seaweed for the extraction of iodine was once a flourishing industry. It has now declined, but some of the seaweeds are still valued locally as a source of brown-yellow dye.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 136, 10 June 1926, Page 8
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