How To Use Fern In A Sentence

Many of the ideas presented are on the cutting edge and deal with anything from abstract concepts to fiddlehead ferns, from a number to numeral, from software to the nuts and bolts of a computer.
In a little water in front of the grotto is the lotus-flower, a regular Indian plant; while in the shade of some of the petrified wood are several beautiful English ferns. Three Months in the Soudan
And if from this conjunction a baby was born, the infernal rite was resumed, all around a little jar of wine, which they called the keg, and they became drunk and would cut the baby to pieces, and pour its blood into the goblet, and they threw babies on the fire, still alive, and they mixed the baby's ashes and his blood, and drank! The Name of the Rose
I sprinted through brambles and thorned blackberry bushes and pushed my way past overgrown, waist-high swordfern.
For 10,000,000 years during the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs this area was a fiery inferno of constant volcanic activity and magnificent giants such as the Grizaba, La Malinche, Iztaccihuatl, Popocatepetl, Volcan de Toluca and Volcan de Colima, along with thousands of smaller volcanic cones, came into eruptive existence. The geology and geography of Lake Chapala and western Mexico

I was haunted by the beauty of the landscape all about, of the natural ferneries then disappearing, and of the domed forest-trees on the slopes, and was fortunate in meeting a gentleman intent on preserving in art the beauties of his country. Sailing Alone Around the World
From his swank corner office on the 50th floor, Cuban-born Jose Fernandez really is at the top of his game.
He can turn the state of lonely self-loathing into a veritable inferno of seething threats, fans, mockers, competitors.
You tend to your business, you infernal bodysnatcher, and let us run ours, ran the message, and I understood. My Dog is avenged
The early Mesozoic was dominated by ferns, cycads, ginkgophytes, bennettitaleans, and other unusual plants.
Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega has said that relations between Britain and Spain "are those of allies and friendly nations", but she said Spain considered the visit "inopportune". Well, diddums
The path, when we get down again into the tree-fern region, is inches deep in mud and water, and several places where we have a drop of five feet or so over lumps of rock are worse work going down than we found them going up, especially when we have to drop down on to amomum stems. Travels in West Africa
A pretty fern that is quite different again is maidenhair fern. Times, Sunday Times
ICE hasn't listed any native Filipino on its "gangbanger" watchlist or detention cells in the past few years, although insignificant remnants of Pinoy street gangs like Akrho and Bahala Na Gang sporadically surface in known Filipino communities here and in Carson, Glendale, Eagle Rock, San Fernando Valley, Rowland Heights, West Covina and Hawthorne. Undefined
Ian Rush believes a willingness to defend from the front has helped Fernando Torres become the top striker in English football.
Highland slopes were characterized by an association of clubmoss (Lycopodium trichiatum), a fern (Gleichemia polypodioides), and flowering plants (Poa fuegiana, Acaena seurguisarbae, Scirpus aucklandicus, Uncinia brevicaulis, and Trisetum insulare). Amsterdam and Saint-Paul Islands temperate grasslands
Now here is what is interesting, the worshippers of Mithras strongly believed in a celestial heaven and an infernal hell.
While some consider giant salvinia to be an attractive aquatic plant, this free-floating fern is also an obnoxious invader that's sometimes referred to as ‘the world's worst water weed.’
It's a shared space and has heathers, ferns, gorse and many wild flowers (not at this time of year) growing on it.
Hundreds of fossils are locked in glass cases, specimens from all over southern Africa: shells and worms and nautiluses and seed ferns and trilobites, and minerals, too; yellow-green crystals and gleaming clusters of quartz; mosquitoes in drops of amber; scheelite, wulfenite. Memory Wall
Benin's chief of army staff, Fernard Amoussou, said one of the plane's two black boxes was found.
It is however quite certain that Ferne was held, along with the Abbacy of Kelso _in commendam_, by Andrew Stewart, Bishop of Caithness, who died in 1517. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
The idea that cycads stem from Carboniferous so-called pteridosperms (‘seed ferns’ or seed plants with fern-like foliage) has long been popular with paleobotanists.
Next you'll come over all pommy and start moaning about the infernal heat. Ms R has lost her bikini
A member of a formerly recognized taxonomic group that included all seedless plants, such as mosses, algae, fungi, and ferns.
It has grown more than two metres high this year despite being in a relatively small container and has covered a decent area of wall with its ferny foliage with a few stems finding their way into the bamboo growing nearby.
I saw a picture not long since, in Edinburgh, copied from an engraving in Boydell's Shakspeare; subject, -- "Lear (and suite) in the storm," but coloured according to the imagination and taste of the artist; its name ought assuredly to have been _Redcap and the blue-devils_, for the venerable and lamented monarch had fine streaming locks of the real _carrot hue_, whilst his very hideous companions showed _blue_ faces, and blue armour; and with their strangely contorted bodies seemed meet representatives of some of the infernal court. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828
Mr. Lockhart shall furnish us with the brightest aspect a British Ferney ever yielded, or is like to yield: and therewith we will quit Abbotsford and the dominant and culminant period of Scotts life: It was a clear, bright September morning, with a sharpness in the air that doubled the animating influence of the sunshine, and all was in readiness for a grand coursing-match on Newark Hill. Paras. 50-73
Many believers accept the broad seven deadly sins or "capital vices" laid down in the 6th century by Pope Gregory the Great and popularised in the Middle Ages by Aquinas, and by Dante in The Inferno.
Una sagte dann noch, dass sie gerne das Buch lesen würde, sofern es eine englische Übersetzung geben wird. Guest Author: Michelle Raven
And there are people who leave the track while trying to gather a few ferns.
Amy had a bower in hers, rather small and earwiggy, but very pretty to look at, with honeysuckle and morning-glories hanging their colored horns and bells in graceful wreaths all over it, tall white lilies, delicate ferns, and as many brilliant, picturesque plants as would consent to blossom there. Little Women
These are fiddleheads, the young shoots of the ostrich fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, and the cinnamon fern, Osmunda cinnamonum.
Scattered accounts of Tony Fernandez’s postprison activities boggle the mind. Without Pity
(Other well-known amari, although less throat-catching than Fernet, include Ramazzotti, Averna, and Campari.) The Bitter Beginning
Emergent species like the strangler fig (Ficus dugandii) may reach heights of over 60 m while very abundant epiphytes such as Araceae sp and Cyclanthaceae sp. cover the lower parts of tree trunks and ferns help make up the dense understory. Western Ecuador moist forests
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Hardwood trees stretched out of sight towards the distant sky; five-fingered orchids crawled up their trunks, and huge ferns spilled over their roots across the mossy path.
When the man found that we were going to stay all night he bestirred himself, dragged some of the things to one side and put down a shake-down of pulu (the silky covering of the fronds of one species of tree-fern), with a sheet over it, and a gay quilt of orange and red cotton. The Hawaiian Archipelago
Nearby rock ledges had Asplenium rutamuraria, Pellaea atropurpurea, and other ferns typical of the habitat, and the foliage of Clematis occidentalis was noted.
The neighbourhood, however, is interesting enough on account of the curious aqueducts for supplying the town with water, and the Mercede forest which, in D'Urville's opinion, might more justly be called a coppice, for it contains nothing but shrubs and ferns. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
He chased his tail and ate May's ferns, and sharpened his tiny claws on the kitchen chair legs, and left a light layer of ginger fur everywhere he went.
The title is in honour of Australia’s first female deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, jibe from the enlightened Mr Heffernan – stating she was unfit for leadership because she was” deliberately barren”. Archive 2008-09-01
His fricassee of snails contains the spicy Japanese condiment red yuzu kosho, local fiddlehead ferns and resinous Greek mastic infused with English peas. Snails Quicken Their Culinary Pace
Bordered by nine countries, its mineral wealth is brazenly plundered, made possible by an infernally weak state in which corruption, violence and lawlessness are rife.
The hill shows evidence of very old farming terraces and sheep pens and is criss-crossed by walks that the owners have cleared and replanted with many varieties of indigenous ferns.
Mr. Fernández, the great-nephew of one of the company's founders, is also a soccer enthusiast and father of five. Corona Brewer Drinks to Family Business
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Large, ferny, deeply dissected leaves make this a favorite.
After WWII, the San Fernando Valley was the nirvana of the common man, the Promised Land where the average Joe could afford to buy his place in the sun. VDARE.com - Latest Articles
East of the School of Forestry is what Peter terms a West Coast garden with rimu, kanuka, mountain beech, coprosma, nikau, wineberry, native fuchsia, pohutukawa, and ferns.
You have already studied two such lineages, the ferns and sphenopsids.
The few non-woody species include little bluestem, wintergreen, Virginia tephrosia, wild indigo, tall oatgrass, cowwheat, low frost weed, turkey beard, and bracken fern.
Giant club moss trees vanished overnight to be replaced by rather weedy fern vegetation. Times, Sunday Times
Flames shot 30ft in the air as 100 firefighters tackled the inferno near where many film companies are based. The Sun
The plant, usually a cactus, potato plant or fern, is secured by a felt strap with a base; tubes allow the soil to drain water.
He smells every starling and chipmunk and fox, every lichen and fern and touch-me-not bursting up through dead leaves on his trail. Moving Among Them
Imperat illi Deus; supplices deprecamur: tuque, Princeps militiae coelestis, Satanam aliosque spiritus malignos, qui ad perditionem animarum pervagantur in mundo, divina virtute in infernum detrude. Why Distributism Can Work (For Us, Right Now) Part I
Andy Ricker, who won the 2011 James Beard award for best chef in the Northwest, shops the stalls of Hmong farmers at his Portland, Oregon, market to find fiddlehead ferns, vegetables like "phak khanaa" or Chinese broccoli, exotic, untranslatable herbs and crucial ingredients like cilantro root for the innovative Asian cuisine he turns out at his restaurant Pok Pok. Chefs talk about unusual farmers market finds
Native vegetation on South Georgia is limited to lichenes, fernes, and a few other small flowering plants. South Georgia
In the overnight rioting, about 100 attackers set fire to Redfern railway station, torched a car and smashed windows.
Either that or global warming has been replaced by global freezing in infernally hot places. Sound Politics: State "Supervision" Fails Again - Another Dead Cop
Naturally enough the greater number are rock ferns -- pellaea, cheilanthes, polypodium, adiantum, woodsia, cryptogramma, etc., with small tufted fronds, lining cool glens and fringing the seams of the cliffs. The Yosemite
Forget for now the flightless kiwi, the koru and the silver fern. Times, Sunday Times
The garden includes ferns, hydrangeas, irises, waterlilies, camellias, rhododendrons, Japanese maples and fuchsias.
The branches seem to be laid out flat, like fern fronds, while it is the colouring that gives the foliage variety of appearance and depth.
On the ground, climbing fern creates tough, spongy mats that can easily smother grasses, low-growing shrubs, and small trees.
He mixes succulents with plants that have foliage of an entirely different nature, such as asparagus fern, coleus, or curly parsley.
Other than that, we ate wild mountain burdocks, butterburs, bracken, flowering ferns and the sesame seeds that were probably carried to the camp on the tails of the horses and now grew there wild.
This was called kupfernickel which means Devil’s Copper. Nickel
The nobler arts of magic, astrology, alchymy, necromancy, &c., were equally in vogue in this age with that of the infernal art proper. The Superstitions of Witchcraft
We were in the middle of a broad and now sluggish river the banks of which were lined by giant, arboraceous ferns, raising their mighty fronds fifty, one hundred, two hundred feet into the quiet air. The Land That Time Forgot
This book therefore sets out to win over a much wider audience to the beauty and importance of ferns and their allies.
Fernando by ABBA (a cover by Maria Celeste G. live on webcam April 2, 2010) "Fernando" is Swedish pop group abba's 1st non-album single, released in March 1976. WN.com - Articles related to Gold slips below $1,150 as dollar hits session high
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Taxonomists can now say that the ferns' closest cousins are the seed plants - angiosperms (flowering plants) and gymnosperms (such as conifers).
A fern-grass-sedge pampa covers the summit areas of the larger islands where moisture is retained in temporary pools and sphagnum moss. Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador
(The monkey fern is a favorite even though it is a little creepy.) Exotica « Awful Library Books
Napoleon overthrows the King of Spain Fernando VII and places his brother Joseph on the throne (1808) Mexico - history time-line overview - resource page
There were other parts of this garden that were also delightful, including The Nuttery which was a sea of light green, yellow and white flowers and ferny foliage under a plantation of Kentish cobnuts, a variety of hazel. Sissinghurst Part Two « Fairegarden
In the valleys of central China, a fernlike weed called sweet wormwood grows in fields formerly dedicated to corn.
Among Mexican music fans, Fernandez is a legend.
After the logging and fires, resilient plants like fire cherry, bracken fern, and the heaths had reclaimed much of this broken landscape.
Granite - a single slab, unbroken and unmarred, smoothed by Sun and Rain, hugged by Salal and Fir where it met surrounding Cliff, with Fern and Moss feathering it as it touched Pool's edge.
Gatekeeper and speckled wood butterflies flit between hemp agrimony, dusty ferns, patches of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and blue tufted vetch. Country diary: St Stephens-by-Saltash
Twenty five years on, the crevices between rocks are filled with cushions of saxifrages, tiny yellow Potentilla cuneata, ferns and hypericums.
This is a diverse community of ferns, sedges, grasses, angiosperms and mosses and is dominated by B. palmiforme, crowberry Empetrum rumbrum, grasses and sedges. Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom
The other especially weedy fern is bracken, which also unusually for pteridophytes has vessels.
Given that Interzone took its name from Burroughs's city, I think its fair to say that while "Jingling Geordie's Hole" lies, as I recall, at the extreme end of its output at that time, a certain "fucked-up" aesthetic was at play in those early days of the magazine, before Cyberpunk, before the New Space Opera, before the New Weird, or Mundane-SF, or even Infernokrusher. Why Do I Infernokrush?
Dani Fernandez, a coach with the Spanish federation, said Castellet "fainted" after the accident, which prompted officials to take her to the hospital to be checked out. Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
I was returned out of the valley aliue, they reuerenced me much, saying that I was baptised and holy, and that the foresayd bodies were men subiect vnto the deuils infernall, who vsed to play vpon citherns, to the end they might allure people to enter, and so murther them. The Journal of Friar Odoric
A group of evergreen ferns such as Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata', the hard fern Blechnum spicant and the hart's tongue fern Asplenium scolopendrium would look great through winter, and you could interplant these with primroses, so you get early spring flowers peeping out among them, like a little spring woodland floor scene. Stumped? Acers, plus shady window boxes
In addition to the fir trees there are rowan, macrocarpa, eucalyptus and larch, and some native plants such as hard fern, matagouri, tussock, manuka, coprosma, and dracophyllum (the grass tree).
At last Dom Fernando, the youngest of the brothers, a lad of fourteen, proposed that their knighthood should be earned by an expedition to take Ceuta from the Moors. A Book of Golden Deeds
Along the path there were fascinating details, composed of the manifold greenery which revels in damp heat, ferns, mosses, confervae, fungi, trailers, shading tiny rills which dropped down into grottoes feathery with the exquisite Trichomanes radicans, or drooped over the rustic path and hung into the river, and overhead the finely incised and almost feathery foliage of several varieties of maple admitted the light only as a green mist. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
I think you are m-making me inf-fernally sorry," said an unsteady little voice. The Fortieth Door
Leaving the hot desert behind, we waded and splashed in some of the pools fed by plumelike waterfalls, surrounded by flowers and ferns, and canopied at places by reeds. The Shepherd’s Song
Sustained by the mist from the falls, it drips with epiphytes - mosses, ferns, aroids, orchids.
She carried a large teardrop bouquet of cream roses, lilac freesias, fern, silvered bear grass, variegated ivy, gypsophila and eucalyptus.
They can be grown in small pots, or be almost packed together in boxes or seed-pans; and when near perfection they may be shaken out and have the roots washed for glasses, ferneries, and small aquaria; or they can be replanted close together in sand, and covered with green moss. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
In addition to being effective in taking up a large amount of arsenic into its aboveground biomass in a relatively short period of time from soils containing arsenic of different concentrations and species, Brake fern also has many desirable attributes as a hyperaccumulating plant.
Leadoff man Fernando Vina ricocheted a single off first base.
Damage is most common during summer flushes of new fern growth.
Two hours after breakfast next morning give one-half dram of the oleoresin of male-fern in emulsion or capsule. The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies
leptosporangiate ferns
The climbing fumitory comes up of itself from seed every year, and is now running over bushes, stakes, and strings, and is full of fern-like leaves and flesh-colored flowers. Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881
However, keep in mind that these are not clear evolutionary groups and probably represent a grade of organisms out of which the fern lineage emerged.
Others are maidenhair spleenwort, two kinds of polypody, and walking fern.
Again, ferns are superior to mosses in this, that in many cases the male influence is exerted directly on the parts that become the thecae, which is not the case in mosses. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
Two or three years 'growth will raise these plants above all grass and low vegetation, and a sprinkling of laurel, rhododendron, hardy ferns and a few intermingling colonies of native wild flowers such as bloodroot, false Solomon's seal and columbines for the East, as Studies of Trees
But the young man was prepared, and turning he ran with the swiftness of a hare toward the nearest tree, a huge, arboraceous fern towering upon the verge of the little clearing. The Eternal Savage
We had a delicious gallop over the sands to the Waiakea river, which we crossed, and came upon one of the vast lava-flows of ages since, over which we had to ride carefully, as the pahoehoe lies in rivers, coils, tortuosities, and holes partially concealed by a luxuriant growth of ferns and convolvuli. The Hawaiian Archipelago
It's by Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and it's titled "The Econometrics of DSGE Models" (ungated version here). The best paper I read this month
East of the School of Forestry is what Peter terms a West Coast garden with rimu, kanuka, mountain beech, coprosma, nikau, wineberry, native fuchsia, pohutukawa, and ferns.
Brother Heffernan is survived by his brother, George and sisters Eileen, Marie and Phil, brothers-in-law, sister-in-law, nephews and nieces.
His conception of the infernal regions had been actively debated throughout the sixteenth century, two opposed views having been set forth by commentators on Dante's text.
Dhoni struck two fours and one six but was caught by Fernando after mishitting a full toss from Zaheer Khan. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
But when they set fire to the wood, it sparked a massive inferno. The Sun
Furthermore, Dante's work is divided into three canticles (the Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise) and each canticle is then divided into thirty-three cantos.
Fall stroll with staff horticulturist Deanne Eversmeyer featuring native plants such as American serviceberry, American yellowwood, Virginia sweetspire, spicebush, fragrant sumac, native ferns and grasses. 10 a.m. Green Scene: The bounty of fall includes tours, lectures and workshops
She is about 13 years old, living proof of the tensions that have grown up over decades in Redfern, passing down the generations and exploding into a full-blown race riot.
She spent the afernoon tinkering about in the garden shed.
It is a fine place to dream in, with falls, cascades, cool rocks lined with hypnum three inches thick; shaded with maple, dogwood, alder, willow; grand clumps of lady-ferns where no hand may touch them; light filtering through translucent leaves; oaks fifty feet high; lilies eight feet high in a filled lake basin near by, and the finest libocedrus groves and tallest ferns and goldenrods. The Yosemite
Ferner's boat, for instance, uses the shell of a Volkswagen station wagon for a cabin.
Gatekeeper and speckled wood butterflies flit between hemp agrimony, dusty ferns, patches of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and blue tufted vetch. Country diary: St Stephens-by-Saltash
Chervil is a light green, lacey, fernlike leaf of Annthriscus cerefolium, a lowgrowing member of the parsley family. Spices and Herbs -Bandra Bazar Road « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1
Ingredients: Rice, fernbrake, roots of balloon flower, bean sprout, beef, red pepper paste, sesame oil.
Ferns were the first terricolous vascular plants, and still comprise an important part of primary productivity of ecosystems.
It has tougher, more leathery fronds than most other ferns. Times, Sunday Times
Fall stroll with staff horticulturist Deanne Eversmeyer featuring native plants such as American serviceberry, American yellowwood, Virginia sweetspire, spicebush, fragrant sumac, native ferns and grasses. 10 a.m. Green Scene: The bounty of fall includes tours, lectures and workshops
‘Typhoon’ ties all the elements into an expressionist's cloud - bright splashes and rough scratches, calls, Fernandez's elegiac guitar, heavy African polyrhythms and an incessantly looped vocal sample.
An enthusiastic botanical collector told me that for years he searched far and near for the adder's-tongue fern, till one day he stumbled upon it in a place over which he had long been in the habit of passing. Birds in the Bush
Liverpool like Fernando Torres and also the non-embarrassing type of Americans, Americans with an air of chino-sporting Massachusetts aristocracy who. Wayne Rooney, Americans and the terrible burden of ambition
We wrapped the blackbird in ferns and lyrically buried it under an acer tree. Times, Sunday Times
As I understand it, the more creative types we execute, the angrier will be the response from your infernal hives. Diuturnity's Dawn
Red Bull driver's lap of 1min 37.942sec at the new Korean International Circuit was almost two-tenths of a second quicker than that of his title rival Fernando Alonso of Ferrari, with another championship contender, Lewis Hamilton of McLaren, third fastest. The Guardian World News
Not only does the noise go on for hours but these infernal machines kill or maim thousands of hedgehogs, frogs and fledglings every spring and summer.
They say the inferno was a mass suicide orchestrated by Koresh, who had predicted an attack and told followers to be ready to die for him in a fire that would take them all to heaven. Surviving Davidians mark tragedy’s
Crystal streams and waterfalls are pouring down the hillsides to lose themselves in one of Connemara's many bays, and we have a glimpse of osmunda fern, golden green and beautiful. Penelope's Irish Experiences
Hammocks could not be slung in tents as small as hers, so a thin lumpy mattress and a pillow of piassava fiber had been dragged into place - both, Fern-o informed her, the property of Luis Quental himself. River Of Desire
There are more than 1,500 kinds of plants in these forests, including 19 kinds of rare plants such as the thorned cyathea spinulosa, the Chinese double-fan fern, the Chinese goose-palm catalpa and the yinque tree.
It was reported that Anne Heffernan had personally contacted the newspaper to complain about the story.
In the 13th century, an alliance of Northern European towns called the Hanseatic League created what historian Fernand Braudel called a "common civilization created by trading. The New World Order
Over 160 years in the making, Trebah now contains glades of subtropical ferns, towering bamboo and magnificent specimen trees, as well as rhododendrons and magnolias in spring.
Oh, Fernand; this may not be; and thou canst purchase the power to bestow unperishing youth, unchanging beauty upon me; the power, moreover, to transport us hence, and render us happy in inseparable companionship for long, long years to come. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
Its primary biological meaning was then, and in some contexts continues to be, an unfolding, as in the unfolding of an organism from a fertilized egg or the unfolding of a fern from a fiddlehead.
Elma has great plans for a water feature and a fernery (collection of different ferns) and her enthusiasm was really infectious.
Out in the front, the diners enjoy heavenly food; in the back, those dishes are prepared in hell's kitchen - an inferno of flame, smoke, sweated labour and shouted curses.
Imperat illi Deus; supplices deprecamur: tuque, Princeps militiae coelestis, Satanam aliosque spiritus malignos, qui ad perditionem animarum pervagantur in mundo, divina virtute in infernum detrude. An Interview With Thomas Storck
Amid the most infernal roar of every kind of fire-arms, and through an atmosphere heavy with dust and smoke, we marched up through the 'boyaux' to the 'tranchees de depart'. Poems
Mile after mile of the coast had been covered with woods, filled with ferns and snaggling roots.
Wetter areas up to about 6,000 ft (1,800 m) support a forest that includes one of the principal lumber trees, the ohia; found with it are treelike ferns. Hawaiian Islands Province (Bailey)
At the rear of the property, a pond is formed by raised beds filled with white azaleas, a katsura tree, rhododendrons, a tree fern, a tall viburnum, and other shade-loving plants.
He stayed single and spent his daylight hours clearing the land of manuka, fern and flax.
These are resurrection ferns, like the ones in the mulga wood.
Thus at St. Isabel or Clarence, Fernando Po, where the land-wind or the sea-breeze ever blows, the vicious little wretches are hardly known; on the forested background of mountain they are troublesome as at Nigerian Nufe. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
Whenever I even say hello they go all red like damn raspberries and start their infernal giggling.
I follow the trail back down through the forest, past glades of ferns glistening with the mist of slow-running falls on their way back to the ocean.
Eugenia (Eugenia Malaccensis), and the pandanus, with its aerial roots, all looped together by large sky-blue convolvuli and the running fern, and is marvellous with parasitic growths. The Hawaiian Archipelago
It is shady, screened from view by rhododendrons., hydrangeas and tall ferns, with a groundcover of sweet woodruff that smothers all weeds.
Other mountain flora found here include rhododendron, azalea, galax, mountain laurel, pitch pine, table mountain pine, and various ferns. Ecoregions of North Carolina and South Carolina (EPA)
It differs from it, however, by being twice pinnate below, and from the typical spinulose fern by its glandular indusium; but from the intermediate variety it is more difficult to separate it, as that also has indusiate glands. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
And so we poured gas down every cavernous hole we found, and then exploded them with torches, setting the caves on fire like raw infernos.
Banners and billboards around town portray a silver fern and the word Loyalty.
I spotted Tony Redfern's surveillance team on my first pass of the Smarts' warehouse.
The matronly Judith, unable to hack off Holofernes's head, carves through it with businesslike concentration, pinioning him to the blood-weltering bed with the help of her equally brutish maidservant.
Witch! traitress! infernal ghost! heart of ice!" and in English "humbug!" and in French Vittoria — Complete
You know, I think the productivity improvement I mean the investments for instance in the boilers are a good example of that, but also some investments related to our - helped drive Fernandina and those are the kind of things that from a volume improvement and associated cost improvement allow us to look at the kind of increases you referenced. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
A third order, intermediate in some respects between these two, and called the ringless ferns (_Marattiaceæ_), has no representatives within our territory. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
Laura Fernandez (ph) has been a graduate -- and what we call a newly-minted graduate, for all of two months. CNN Transcript Aug 12, 2009
Mix in foliage plants such as dusty miller, ferns, liriope, or dwarf nandina.
Bamboos, ferns, bromeliads, epiphytes and orchids will all thrive in this microclimate.
The entrance to the house and gardens at this amazing attraction is a long winding road past mature stands of conifers and deciduous trees underplanted with flowering shrubs, ferns and wildflowers. Your Happy Place « Fairegarden
Any gang of politicos is like the eighth circle of Hell, but the American breed is specially awful because they take it seriously and believe it matters; wherever you went, to dinner or an excursion or to pay a call, or even take a stroll, you were deafened with their infernal prosing-I daren't go to the privy without making sure some seedy heeler wasn't lying in wait to get me to join a caucus. Isabelle
Whatever it was out there amongst the ferns, he didn't know, but it was lurking, waiting.
The pampa holds the most ferns species, although 90 different species grow throughout the Galapagos archipelago. Galápagos Islands xeric scrub
It is a first for New York. An outdoor exhibition of Fernando Botero's sculpture on Park Avenue.
London ones, though by no means so abominable even, one's company here being mainly God's sky and earth, not cockneydom with its slums, enchanted aperies and infernalries. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
Begin with anything pretty in a pot: cyclamen, primula, epimedium, ferns, ivy... Times, Sunday Times
The known flora consists of 41 ferns and fern allies, 3 gymnosperms, 291 monocots, and 516 dicots.
With their habitats gone these cannot survive, but the conifers and ferns do well in resisting environmental stress and will have an early boost in diversification. EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
Entire ferns may be blighted by late summer in a wet year.
His choice depicts the silver fern on a blue and red background. Times, Sunday Times
Fernandez, like many artists before her, engages in a dialogue between artifice and nature.
Brendan Morrison took a slap shot from above the slot that Sedin deflected past Fernandez's glove for his first goal in 23 games dating back to last season. NHL - National Hockey League - Vancouver vs. Minnesota
The Comptonia or sweet-fern is in flower, the brown, catkin-like blossoms are nearly as fragrant as the foliage; it is the only fern we have with woody branches. Rural Hours
Ferns are especially handsome as accents among swaths of lower-growing plants such as sweet woodruff or oxalis or growing beside ponds.
A majestic fern that looks fabulous in spring when its fresh green fronds appear. Times, Sunday Times
Ski bums live in tents, car parks, bus stations, dog houses, whatever shelter than can find that can keep them skiing Fernie every day.
As we climb, the maze of trees, ferns, and blueberry bushes gives way to subalpine meadows painted with purple lupine, pale blue gentians, crimson columbine, and yellow arnica.
Cùm autem homines illius contratæ sciuerunt me viuum exisse, reuerebantur me multum, dicentes me baptizatum et sanctum: et corpora illa fuisse daemonum infernalium qui pulsant cytharas vt homines alliciant intare, et interficiant. The Journal of Friar Odoric
There were splashes of flash bulbs, and infernal heat, and the button eyes of Ethel Kennedy turned to cinders.
A profusion of mosses, liverworts, lichens and ferns cover the woodland floor and festoon tree trunks and branches.
The commonly eaten fiddleheads in eastern North America are those of ostrich fern, a native woodland plant.
She was desperately trying to calm the inferno raging within her.
Along rocky south-western coasts, especially in caves, maidenhair fern can still be seen. Times, Sunday Times
Fernando was truly enthusiastic for the voluntary conversion of all his Mudejar subjects.
There are natural concentrations of white and red fern leaf acacias in this Province, along with guaiacums, locust trees, itínes and white sages.
Coal forests of giant lycopods, calamites, pteridophytes and ferns cover the tropical landmasses.
Or I can walk up the canyon and climb high narrow hills, through the ferny trees, until I stand on rimrock in the wind. The Life of the World to Come

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