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"Club-moss" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have been well described by M. Martin St. Ange, whose observations have since been confirmed by R. Wagner.[18] The testes are small, often leaden-coloured, either pear or finger-shaped, or branched like club-moss,—these several forms sometimes occurring in the same individual; they coat the stomach, enter the pedicels, and even the basal segments of the rami of the cirri, and in some genera occupy certain swellings on the thorax and prosoma, and in others the filamentary appendages: the testes seen in ...
— A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) - The Lepadidae; or, Pedunculated Cirripedes • Charles Darwin
... breaks and transitions. Would any but a poet—at least could any one without being conscious that he had expressed himself with noticeable vivacity—have described a bird singing loud by, "The thrush is busy in the wood?"—or have spoken of boys with a string of club-moss round their rusty hats, as the boys "with their green coronal?"—or have translated a beautiful May-day into "Both earth and sky keep jubilee!" —or have brought all the different marks and circumstances of a sealoch before the mind, as the actions of a living and acting power? Or have represented ...
— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Words linked to "Club-moss" : mountain clubmoss, spike moss, little clubmoss, strobilus, lycopod, ground pine, class Lycopodiate, class Lycopsida, Lycopodium selago, Christmas green, alpine clubmoss, Lycopodium lucidulum, Lycopodiate, cone, fern ally, Lycopsida, strobile, fir clubmoss, little club moss, club moss, shining clubmoss, Lycopodium alpinum, spikemoss |
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