Crossword-Solution: EVERNIA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The substance is composed of tufted white lichens (_Usnea_ and _Evernia_), and a few fine roots and wiry stems of garden-thyme, felted together with wool so securely, that it is scarcely possible to remove one of them without damaging the whole.

Two _Parmelias_, one _Evernia_, and one _Cladonia_, the first-named overrunning the blocks on the edge of the crater with great luxuriance.

Although, like them, nocturnal in its habits, it is able to run with considerable velocity; and, instead of attaching itself to the blocks of putrefying wood, which both fall and decay _in situ_ on those elevated tracts, it hides within the bunches of _Evernia scopulorum_ and _prunastri_ which clothe the trunks of living trees, and fill up the crevices of the weather-beaten peaks.

Not long ago we unrolled in Montreal an Egyptian mummy, preserved in the oldest style of embalming, and found that, to preserve the odour of the spices, quantities of a lichen (_Evernia furfuracea_) had been wrapped around the body, and have no doubt been imported into Egypt from Lebanon, or the hills of Macedonia, for such uses.

Had the Egyptian embalmer used some of the first created specimens of _Evernia furfuracea_, it might easily, within the three thousand years or so since his work was done, have floated round the world and established itself on the White Hills.