At the foot of northern slopes is relict club-moss steppe. From Wordnik.com. [Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia] Reference
Mog-ur reached into a small pouch and withdrew a pinch of dried club-moss spores. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
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.". From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, December 23, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, December 23, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Ginkgo On Your Mind?] Reference
The bracken and the club-moss of our British moors grow associated with tree-ferns. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty] Reference
He tells of the rhodora, the club-moss, the blooming clover, not of the hibiscus and the asphodel. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Hours] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Fairy-Land of Science] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth] Reference
= A common club-moss. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems] Reference
Running over the club-moss burrs. From Wordnik.com. [Graded Memory Selections] Reference
Lycopodium lucidulum (toothed club-moss). From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
See "Smaller club-moss.". From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
His "feather" is the Traveller's Joy, his "hatband" the club-moss. From Wordnik.com. [The Dukeries] Reference
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