It retreats only to the woods near the water, if may be, or to just as close a counterpart of a swampy southern woods, where the Spanish or usnea "moss" drapes itself over the cypresses, as it can find here at the north.
"Bird-Neighbors"
Blanchan, Neltje
This material, under the name of usnea, was apparently quite popular in prescriptions for various chronic ills, and especially those that we now recognize as prolonged neurotic affections.
"Psychotherapy"
James J. Walsh