Muscus. Mosse. Is something cold and binding, yet usually retains a smatch of the property of the tree it grows on; therefore that which grows upon oaks is very dry and binding. Serapio saith that it being infused in wine, and the wine drank, it stays vomiting and fluxes, as also the Fluor Albus.
Library · Culpeper's Complete Herbal, 1814
HERBS AND THEIR LEAVES. Muscus. Mosse
Nicholas Culpeper, p. 241. Transcribed from the page image on September 25, 2026, as printed.