Up in one of the great rounded towers spotted with orange lichen and encircled with ivy is a room which must have been her bedchamber.
Tearing up the lichen from its roots, Francisco set to work upon the ivy.
From the lichen his gaze traveled slowly upward, but not a foothold could he see.
Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark.
The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there.
As soon as he touches the earth the song ceases and the silent bird trots quietly off over the moss, where his trim form blends with the lichen and mossy tussocks, so that, upon remaining motionless, he disappears with amazing rapidity.
These latter resemble the Cladonia pyxidata and the Lichen rangiferinus, so common in the north of Europe.
The cladonias appeared to me to be identical with the Lichen rangiferinus, the L.
The rushing stream and the moss and lichen everywhere add much to its picturesqueness, but we should imagine there is too much shade and damp to be enjoyable in the winter.
It is moated, with an array of old stone piers in front, upon which the silvery green lichen stands out in harmonious contrast with the rich purple red of the Tudor brickwork.
But the lichen is much less conspicuous in England, and plays no such part in her natural scenery.
The lichen is one of the lowest and humblest forms of vegetable growth, but think how much it adds to the beauty of all our wild scenery, giving to our mountain walls and drift bowlders the softest and most pleasing tints.
Sometimes he prayed that a little moss or lichen might spring up on those bare walls to be a companion to him; but it never came.
On the right and left rose huge rocks, devoid of lichen or moss, and in the lava-like earth chasms yawned.
The thallus or body of the lichen is of very different form in different genera.
The relation of the two constituents of the lichen have been briefly stated in the beginning of this article.
The lichen flora of temperate regions again is essentially distinguished from the preceding by the frequency of corticolous species belonging to Lecanora, Lecidea and Graphidei.
No lichen is known to be possessed of any poisonous properties to man, although Chlorea vulpina is believed by the Swedes to be so.
It must be borne in mind that the exact nutritive relations of the two constituents of the lichen have not been completely elucidated, and that it is very difficult to draw the line between symbiosis and parasitism.
An association of two organisms to their mutual advantage is known as symbiosis, and the lichen in botanical language is described as a symbiotic union of an alga and a fungus.
He investigated the exact relation of fungus and alga and showed that the same alga is able to combine with a number of different fungi to form lichens; thus Chroolepus umbrinus is found as the gonidia of 13 different lichen genera.
Such mushrooms are no more the produce of the stone, than the lichen is of the rock to which it adheres, or the moss, of the tree on which it is found.
Over all there is a low pyramidal roof, stained with orange lichen and making a great contrast in colour to the weather-beaten stone-work down below.
He said there was a good chance of lichen on Mars, and I misunderstood and said, "A good chance of liking what on Mars?
I congratulated Kroger on the lichen I'd seen, but he just said a short and unscientific word and went to sleep.
He saw the raw, new grave and the heave of the older grave's green sod, the old stone, with its embroidery of yellow lichen and its text of eternal faith.
He could love and admire every tiny flower, every moss or lichen or tender and beautiful saxifrage that clad the rocky uplands.
To the lichen world I have, I think, added not a few species hitherto unknown.
They looked like some petrified octopus stretching up its hideous tentacles to the elements, and were already covered with lichen and juniper.
Angel Father did show me the way to listen to lichen voices.
And all the time the lichen folks are saying things.
Some fields are divided into two by a long line of posts and rails, which in time become grey from the lichen growing on the wood.
Reverse the order, and the lichen dries up beneath a tropical sun.
The oak of our forest is the puny lichen of the arctic regions.
I can get a room in the village, and make a picture of the fountain and the lichen and the willow weed, with Mrs. Le Geyt picking flowers.
