But do seaweeds and mosses and lichens and ferns and mushrooms all belong to one family?
Very much the same, and it belongs to the flowerless class, too, along with the mosses and lichens and ferns and mushrooms.
It stands erect, and like a stone With lichens it is overgrown.
The church has a simple old-fashioned appearance; its roof, walls, and small campanile are painted with the rusty gold of lichens that have sprung from the kisses of four centuries of rain and sun.
On his daily life his Essays grew like lichens upon rocks.
I know a woman who has made lichensthe study of a life-time.
But its roof-like coping was crowned with tufts of wall-plants, and a few lichens did something to relieve the grayness.
I stood in an ancient garden With high red walls around; Over them gray and green lichens In shadowy arabesque wound.
Lichens for the herbarium should, whenever possible, be sought for on a slaty or laminated rock, so as to procure them on flat thin pieces of the same, suitable for mounting.
Rootless plants called lichens often cover and corrode rocks as yet bare of soil; but where lichens are destroying the rock less rapidly than does the weather, they serve in a way as a protection.
The sun came and touched the lichens of the roof into gold.
In some Arctic and Alpine regions, mosses and lichens prevail.
Neither wood, dung, nor lichensfor fuel could be found.
Six hours' brisk marching took us to a sheltered spot where a few lichens and shrubs were growing.
Looking at the country below through my telescope, I saw shrubs and lichens far down in the valley to the north-east, and also a tent and some sheep.
We all set out collecting lichens and shrubs in order to make a fire, and each man carried into camp several loads of fuel.
Clinging lichens made the grey faces of the granite greyer still; while others, nestling in mossy hollows, were tipped with scarlet, recalling the vivid touches of colour over the eyes of a moorfowl.
Grey lichens are woven through the herbage here and there, and sometimes these silvery filigranes dominate the turf and create fair harmonies with the rosy ling in summer and the red brake-fern of the fall.
One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi.
A small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi.
Scrubby brushwood and rank grass and lichens have for the most part covered its surface, giving it the appearance rather of a huge mound of earth than of an ancient building.
The branches of the larches, spruce, and gray pines, were clothed with lichens and floating moss to their very tops, denoting an atmosphere of more than the ordinary humidity.
The general product of the decomposition of the acids obtained from the tinctorial lichens under the influence of heat or the alkaline earths.
The Algae, Characeae, Fungi, andLichens are thallogenous plants.
Rust-colored lichens and lichens hoary like blanched old men, spread their great seals on stone and soil.
That quick suggestive mind would gather the moss and lichens of decay.
With the ivy wreathing tower and porch, and moss and lichensencrusting its old plastered walls, Tugford church looks thoroughly in keeping with its secluded sylvan situation.
Silent he sat and gazed into the lichens of grey and gold that crowned each rude pillar of the lonely ring.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lichens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
