club-moss

At the foot of northern slopes is relict club-moss steppe.

Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia 2008

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

Westward Ho! 2007

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.

Ginkgo On Your Mind? 2007

Mog-ur reached into a small pouch and withdrew a pinch of dried club-moss spores.

The Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean M. 1980

At the foot of a rough, scraggy yellow birch, on a bank of club-moss, so richly inlaid with partridge-berry and curious shining leaves, -- with here and there in the bordering a spire of the false wintergreen

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various

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."

Harper's Young People, December 23, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various

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.

Harper's Young People, December 23, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various

The bracken and the club-moss of our British moors grow associated with tree-ferns.

The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Francis Edward Younghusband 1902

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.

The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

It was probably in this period that _coloured_ flowers -- attractive to insect-visitors -- began to justify themselves as beauty became useful, and began to relieve the monotonous green of the horsetail and club-moss forests, which covered great tracts of the earth for millions of years.

The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897