What is "ferns"

Usage examples of "ferns".

When he came back he bore with him beautiful bunches of ferns of many kinds-Hymenophyllum and Asplenium, portions of the fronds of the Dicksonia, the Adiantum, the Alsophila, excelsa, the Umbrella fern, the Acrostichurn and others.

When the hunters tired of fishing, and when they wearied of crossing the sand-dunes and the glaring, shimmering beachglaring and shimmering on every fine day of summer-to poke off the mussels and spear the butterfish and groper, they pushed through the Ceratopetalums and the burrawangs, and, following the tortuous bed of the principal creek amid the ferns and the moss and the vines and the myrtles, gradually ascending, they entered the sub-tropical patch where the ferns were huge and lank and staghorns clustered on rocks and trees, and the beautiful Dendrobium clung, and the supplejacks and leatherwoods and bangalow palms ran up in slender height, and that pretty massive parasite-the wild fig-made its umbrageous shade, as has been written.

During the day the girls would cover it with soil and then Fern would transfer growing plants to it so that soon it would look like nothing but a natural mound of trees, ferns and bushes, and would be unnoticeable.

Only some few of our native Ferns are known to possess medicinal virtues, though they may all be happily pronounced devoid of poisonous or deleterious properties.

By an official letter the Earl of Pembroke admonished the High Sheriff of Stafford to forbear the burning of Ferns during a visit of Charles I.

Great Britain, and is the stateliest of Ferns in its favourite watery haunts.

On the hillside the withering ferns spread a mantle of rich bronze over the turf as far as their eyes could see through the fine, filmy haze which hung over all the landscape, and filled up the valley of Cloverley beneath them, until it looked like a calm, white lake of vapour, surrounded by the summits of the mountains.

At dusk, the nighthawk wheels with a soft yet quick flight over the ferns and about the trees.

There were bees and birds, and there were many ferns which gave succulent roots.

He had dry ferns and grass ready, and placing them on the glowing spot he gently blew until the flame burst out.

She walked away through the ferns, through the scrub of myrtle and vines that made dense the bank of the creek, and then, crawling under there where it was hollowed and hidden by a mass of old dark roots and a fallen log, she lay down and died.

Stenocarpus trees, and the eucalypti, and the ferns, before the traveller discovered that he was wrong.

All the ferns, all the mosses, all the deep-green, rank-grown underscrub hem the chill waters of the little sunless creeks and close them about.

On most mornings her jeans were wet with the rain or dew transferred from the fronds of ferns and her hands looked pink and raw.

Somebody else would shoot a horse in a field, drive a borrowed car into a ditch, stumble drunkenly into ferns and sleep, bleeding, until 2 p.