Help me resolve a few synonyms
MANHART, JAMES
j0m1742 at venus.tamu.edu
Wed Aug 10 15:18:00 EST 1994
In article <dmoerman.2.001C0C95 at umich.edu>, dmoerman at umich.edu (Dan Moerman) writes...
>
>In 1905 JW Blankinship reported that the Blackfoot Indians used Bazzania
>trilobata (L.) S.F. Gray to make a yellow dye. Bazzania, he said, "grows on
>pines of the Rocky Mountains." Any idea what this might be?
>
Bazzania is a liverwort that superficially resembles a moss.
It would probably take an expert on Bryophytes to help you
any further.
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