Ferns
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You get the human lungs, you get acacia trees, you get ferns, you get these beautiful natural forms.
This forest here has Queensland maple, it has sword
ferns
from Southeast Asia.
The fundamental forms of
ferns
followed, to bear spores that foreshadowed seeds.
And all of a sudden, you lose sight of the ground, and you also lose sight of the sky, and you're in a three-dimensional labyrinth in the air filled with hanging gardens of
ferns
growing out of soil, which is populated with all kinds of small organisms.
There were mimosas, banyan trees, beefwood, teakwood, hibiscus, screw pines, palm trees, all mingling in wild profusion; and beneath the shade of their green canopies, at the feet of their gigantic trunks, there grew orchids, leguminous plants, and
ferns.
But the courtyards grow narrower, the houses closer together, and the fences disappear; a bundle of
ferns
swings under a window from the end of a broomstick; there is a blacksmith's forge and then a wheelwright's, with two or three new carts outside that partly block the way.
Long
ferns
by the roadside caught in Emma's stirrup.
She had fashioned it out of water-worn stones and sea shells, with mosses and
ferns
in the chinks.
There were tall grasses, ferns, lycopods, besides sigillaria, asterophyllites, now scarce plants, but then the species might be counted by thousands.
They were lowly shrubs of earth, here attaining gigantic size; lycopodiums, a hundred feet high; the huge sigillaria, found in our coal mines; tree ferns, as tall as our fir-trees in northern latitudes; lepidodendra, with cylindrical forked stems, terminated by long leaves, and bristling with rough hairs like those of the cactus.
I glide like a shade amongst arborescent ferns, treading with unsteady feet the coloured marls and the particoloured clays; I lean for support against the trunks of immense conifers; I lie in the shade of sphenophylla (wedge-leaved), asterophylla (star-leaved), and lycopods, a hundred feet high.
The wagonette swung round into a side road, and we curved upward through deep lanes worn by centuries of wheels, high banks on either side, heavy with dripping moss and fleshy hart's-tongue
ferns.
The face which was turned towards us formed a dark cliff, with
ferns
and brambles growing in its niches.
Vast forests of palms, arecs, bamboo, teakwood, of the gigantic mimosa, and tree-like
ferns
covered the foreground, while behind, the graceful outlines of the mountains were traced against the sky; and along the coasts swarmed by thousands the precious swallows whose nests furnish a luxurious dish to the tables of the Celestial Empire.
Pepper plants replaced the prickly hedges of European fields; sago-bushes, large
ferns
with gorgeous branches, varied the aspect of this tropical clime; while nutmeg-trees in full foliage filled the air with a penetrating perfume.
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