vaccine lichen

many minute seeds. The species occur in temperate regions, in swamps or subalpine districts. They are widely diffused over both hemispheres. Their bark and leaves are astringent, their berries pleasantly subacid. Known genera, fourteen; species, two hundred. ( Lindley .) [VACCINIEE.] văc-çin'-Ic, a . [Lat. vaccin ( us ) = of or belonging to a cow; Eng. suff. -ic .] Contained in or derived from cow's milk. vaccinic-acid, s. Chem.: Lerch's name for an acid he obtained by the saponification of butter from cow's milk. It appears to have been a mixture of butyric and cupric acids.