iolithus

Updated: May 10, 2025

Greys, greens, yellows, and browns and rust-reds are but the colours of a variety of lowly vegetable forms, mostly lichens and the aerial alga called iolithus. Without this colouring, its "living stains," Salisbury would not have fascinated me as it did during this last visit.

W. H. (William Henry) Hudson - Afoot in England