Lichens-CLADONIACEAE-Cladonia chlorophaea

Lichens

CLADONIACEAE Cladonia chlorophaea (Floerke ex Sommerfeldt) Sprengel,

in the broad sense

chalice-moss, cup-moss, Our Lady’s chalice

northern and southern temperate, alpine and polar regions

An old whooping-cough remedy, recommended in some of the herbals and still in John Quincy’s day ‘mightily in vogue among the good wives’ though largely ignored by official medicine,¹⁹ Cladonia chlorophaea has continued into more or less contemporary folk medicine in Britain in two Welsh counties (Merionethshire and Denbighshire) under the name cwpanau pas.²⁰ In Ireland, this lichen, boiled in new milk, has had the same role in Waterford.²¹