Cudbear

Description

A purple or violet powder, used in dyeing violet, purple, crimson, prepared for various species of lichens which grow on the rocks in northern europe.

Keywords

mold

Galleries

Mosses and Lichens

Source:

William & Robert Chambers Encyclopaedia - A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1881)

Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman