a. A lichen, Scyphophorus pyxidatus or Cladonia pyxidata, having cup-shaped processes arising from the thallus. b. Locally applied to the CUDBEAR, Lecanora tartarea, from its cup-shaped fructification.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, III. clvii. 1371. Muscus Pyxidatos, which I have englished Cup Mosse, or Chalice Mosse.
1718. Quincy, Compl. Disp., 227. Cup-Moss … with some other Mosses have been mightily in vogue amongst the good Wives for their children’s Coughs.
1812. D. Souter, Agric. Surv. Banff, 60 (Jam.). A species of moss named cud bear or cup moss.
a. 1835. Mrs. Hemans, Summer’s Call, Poems (1875), 544. Where the fairy cup-moss lies.
