Abstract: The counter-fable of the lion, the fox, and the old woman (P, XV), which celebrates the marriage of the fly and the moss, invites us to dive into the realm of muscineae, which lend themselves to the subversive games of erobotany. Rabelaisian bryological brilliance transforms the philological challenges linked to moss into fiction, with moss’s curative virtues (from the gynecological to the pornographic), its analogical (vulpine and capillary) and technical declensions—caulking moss, metaphor for the hermeneutic gesture.
