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Trip de Roche. (Reindeer moss.) Haupt Coll. & del.
X this "Trip de Roche" "Reindeer Moss" "Rock Moss" and so forth is crossed out: an article used by the Ojibway indian and the Eskimo under extreme necessity crossed out: as an article of diet They eat it raw or cooked as the case may be. The Eskimos take the dark rarity and steep it and make a tea which they drink to cure cold. The Trip de Roche is a gray moss that grows on the rock on the ground in northern climates from a half inch in height to three or four inches as the case may be and nourishment is more or less abundant. We give a drawing of one branch as whole clump [?] is so complex that the drawing would convey no idea. This Moss is eaten by the Reindeer and is the the gray colored sponge like clumps of moss that is found on the ground in the north. It is common in New England and is said to grow in Minnesota Wisconsin and the west. In dry weather it is dry and brittle but is very hydroscopic and in moist places or damp weather is very spongy and pliant and easily torn. The carib and Reindeer subsist upon it almost entirely in winter scratching for it in the snow.