orchilla-weed

The trees were in general scraggy, and covered, exactly as they are in the damp climate of the Coast, with lichens, resembling orchilla-weed.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

The orchilla-weed and mosses, too, were in but small quantities.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

In one part we came upon groups of lofty trees as straight as masts, with festoons of orchilla-weed hanging from the branches.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

A feature common to the forests of Angola and Benguela, namely, the presence of orchilla-weed and lichens on the trees, with mosses on the ground, began to appear; but we never, on any part of the eastern slope, saw the abundant crops of ferns which are met with every where in

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004