At the foot of northern slopes is relict club-moss steppe. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Meanwhile, doctors are also studying the compounds often mixed with ginkgo in commercial formulas -- vinpocetine, an extract of the periwinkle plant; huperzine-A, a club-moss extract, and Acetyl-L-carnitine and DMAE, long cited as memory enhancers. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Now they are hewing their way through a thicket of enormous flags; now through bamboos forty feet high; now they are stumbling over boulders, waist-deep in cushions of club-moss; now they are struggling through shrubberies of heaths and rhododendrons, and woolly incense-trees, where every leaf, as they brush past, dashes some fresh scent into their faces, and ❋ Unknown (2007)
Mog-ur reached into a small pouch and withdrew a pinch of dried club-moss spores. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1980)
At the foot of a rough, scraggy yellow birch, on a bank of club-moss, so richly inlaid with partridge-berry and curious shining leaves, -- with here and there in the bordering a spire of the false wintergreen ❋ Various (N/A)
Some of these are such perfect little trees as to appear diminutive copies of the firs and pines towering far above them, and are called "fir club-moss." ❋ Various (N/A)
There is the creeping club-moss, the cord-like stem of which, sometimes yards long, hides among the dead leaves, and sends up at intervals graceful whorls of bright green. ❋ Various (N/A)
The bracken and the club-moss of our British moors grow associated with tree-ferns. ❋ Francis Edward Younghusband (1902)
It need hardly be said that it was in this period that most of the Coal-measures were laid down by the immense accumulation of the spores and debris of the club-moss forests. ❋ J. Arthur Thomson (1897)
It was probably in this period that _coloured_ flowers -- attractive to insect-visitors -- began to justify themselves as beauty became useful, and began to relieve the monotonous green of the horsetail and club-moss forests, which covered great tracts of the earth for millions of years. ❋ J. Arthur Thomson (1897)
We contributed a basketful of ground-pine, both the erect and running kinds, with some glittering club-moss and glossy pipsissiwa, for our share; it is not every year that we can procure these more delicate plants, as the snow is often too deep to find them. ❋ Unknown (1887)
He tells of the rhodora, the club-moss, the blooming clover, not of the hibiscus and the asphodel. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)
When you remember these and many more, and also how the seeds of the club-moss now are largely charged with oil, you will easily imagine that the large masses of coal-plants which have been pressed together and broken and crushed, would give out a great deal of oil which, when made very hot, rises up as gas. ❋ Arabella B. Buckley (1884)
At the foot of a rough, scraggy yellow birch, on a bank of club-moss, so richly inlaid with partridge-berry and curious shining leaves -- with here and there in the bordering a spire of the false wintergreen strung with faint pink flowers and exhaling the breath of a May orchard -- that it looks too costly a couch for such an idler, I recline to note what transpires. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
We sat down on a bank of trailing club-moss by the side of the rough track, for it was nothing more, and let our guide go on to negotiate with the Lamas. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
In dryer and more stony places, a pinnatifid club-moss stood up amongst the stones in crisp tufts, like the parsley fern on mountain-sides at home. ❋ Thomas Belt (1855)
There were two fine orchids in flower, which grew not only on the rock, but on some stunted trees at its base; and beneath some fallen rocks nestled a pretty club-moss, and two curious little ferns ❋ Thomas Belt (1855)
The club-moss family (lycopodiaceae) are other plants of the present surface, usually seen in a lowly and creeping form in temperate latitudes, but presenting species which rise to a greater magnitude within the tropics. ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)
And the cairn, about a hundred feet in length and breadth, by about twenty in height, with its long hoary hair of overgrown lichen waving in the breeze, and the trailing club-moss shooting upwards from its base along its sides, bears in its every lineament full mark of its great age. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)
