The ferny undergrowth.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The ferny shadows of locust leaves.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective, : ferny leaves. ,ferny undergrowth.    From Dictionary.com. 

I stood in the ferny glade in the milky moonlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Wind Blows]

It is said to have a pleasant, ferny odor when bruised.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

This great little plant is a ferny-leaved version of cilantro.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 May « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog] Reference

It was rich with pine and ferny undergrowth, verdant with life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Skrayling Tree]

A lady that was brisk and bold Come riding o'er the ferny brae.    From Wordnik.com.  [War for the Oaks]

When bruised its resinous glands give out a pleasing, ferny odor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

It looked good so I asked them what ferny vegetables tasted like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference

I have seen someone mention the ferny bits in salad mixes though.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenhouse/Sunroom Of Plenty « Fairegarden] Reference

This is smaller with a ferny leaf, D. eximia, a native here I believe.    From Wordnik.com.  [November Dreams Bloom Day « Fairegarden] Reference

Just before the band sat around on the ferny, pine clad rocks for supper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference

It's so lush and mossy and ferny and well it reminds me of a simpler time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference

Not much going on here, the ferny nigella foliage to the right looks nice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salvia – Full Frontal or Close Up « Fairegarden] Reference

Spots lovely and damp, circles of ferny grass beneath elms offered themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference

Between one step and another, ferny hummocks gave way to stone crusted with lichen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowfane]

The path dived into a crevice which opened into a smaller, more enclosed, ferny cave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Man in Rome]

A black gap of air stood between the bottom of the porch and the top of the ferny foundation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proudly Defying Description] Reference

Golden spikemoss, Selaginalla kraussiana is used in container plantings as a ferny groundcover.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Frost Of Fall « Fairegarden] Reference

The dropwort is a fabulous plant with evergreen ferny foliage that seems to grow in any condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [May Bloom Day-This And That « Fairegarden] Reference

I am cheered by your Nigella, we have it as thick as moss here and the ferny foliage is so welcome.    From Wordnik.com.  [December Foliage « Fairegarden] Reference

Or I can walk up the canyon and climb high narrow hills, through the ferny trees, until I stand on rimrock in the wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the World to Come]

Although there is no culinary use for these ferny leaves, they are a sure sign that those carrots are fresh, not stored.    From Wordnik.com.  [JOIE DE VIVRE] Reference

For a short spell, in a calmer section of the river, they drifted and enjoyed the ferny banks and the cry of a hawk overhead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Welkening] Reference

She was diving very deep into the ferny woods, and she was intent on coming out first, if it were only in a race to get ferns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference

Her footsteps flagged, and she stood gazing listlessly ahead, digging the ferny edge of the path with the tip of her sunshade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of Mirth] Reference

Give me my upland forest with its ferny glen, its glade of the hazelbloom in a dappled shade, where I and the earth-girl dwell.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Lundberg: Remembering Hayden Carruth] Reference

Michael followed his father and the two women out the door of the ferny and mahoganous bar and into the dark balm of the night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Position] Reference

As I walked by a brook that plashed down ferny rocks, I met Ismenios, whom I'd scarcely seen since he left the squires for the Companions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Boy]

Our couch shall be the ferny brake, our canopy the tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rookwood] Reference

This side was pretty, too, though there were no rocks nor ferny coves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls] Reference

We sat on the ferny bank of the pool and ate of the generous basket Aunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Road] Reference

I was the first to reach it, which I did by scrambling down the ferny bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Three Lions] Reference

Some have only small quiet streams, which pass gently through ferny grottoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

Window and door were open, and leafy, ferny odors mingled with the smell of burning cedar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Window-Gazer] Reference

He pulled away with swift defiant strokes, and Anne went up the steep, ferny little path under the maples.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne of Green Gables] Reference

Why did the world consist of any thing else but Tudor palaces in ferny parks, or time be other than a perpetual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lothair] Reference

I felt a rill of cold down my back like the jetting of the spring that spouted from its ferny tunnel farther eastward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blue Man From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899] Reference

And then, all of a sudden, a little way up the ferny grassy hillside, I caught sight of the end of a book half hidden among the ferns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance] Reference