Plot says positively,* that 'there never were any fallen trees hidden in the mosses of the southern counties.
Linnaeus ranges plants geographically; palms inhabit the tropics, grasses the temperate zones, and mosses and lichens the polar circles; no doubt animals may be classed in the same manner with propriety.
Araluen Take this rose, and very gently place it on the tender, deep Mosses where our little darling, Araluen, lies asleep.
Lichens moist upon the fences, Twiners close against the logs; Yellow fungus in the thickets, Vivid mosses in the bogs.
Soft mosses crept around the marble basin, and dropped downward to the tesselated floor.
They fluttered down to the rose thickets, and lay in patches of torn crimson and crumpled gold among the house-leeks and mosses on the roof.
A considerable number of implements, mostly of the same class, were found on the clay under the ancient mosses of Blair-Drummond and Meiklewood.
The like discoveries in other Scottish mosses prove their origin from the same wasteful inroads of early times.
When all other service is vain from plant and tree, the soft Mosses and grey Lichens take up their watch by the headstone.
This reputation for medical virtues they have now all lost, except the Iceland Moss, which is still in use for invalids; but the Mosses have other uses.
No words that I know of will say what these Mosses are; none are delicate enough, none perfect enough, none rich enough.
The final duty of Mosses is to die; the main work of other leaves is in their life, but these have to form the earth, out of which other leaves are to grow.
As to the beauty of Mosses and Lichens we have only to ask any artist or go into any exhibition of pictures.
The open space was rock thinly covered with mossesand vines, an upthrust of the granite foundations of a hill which towered near by.
In spots the mosses and ground vines had so overgrown it that only the broad scars on the tree trunks, where the lumberman's axe had blazed them for a sign, served to distinguish it from a score of radiating vistas.
A little later when the mosses were dry, and when the ground was well heartened with the fecundating heats of June, Miranda had further proof of her peculiar powers of vision.
In the deep recesses of the walls we find springs, with mosses and ferns on the moistened sandstone.
The rocks below the fountain are covered with mosses and ferns and many beautiful flowering plants.
The red sandstones are lichened over; delicate mosses grow in the moist places, and ferns festoon the walls.
A wall of spruces and hemlocks draped and tufted with gray and yellow lichens and mosses embowered the campground and overarched the little river, while the camp-fire smoke, like a stranded cloud, lay motionless in their branches.
The colored lichens and mosses gave them a venerable air, while the larger vegetation often found on such as were most decayed produced a picturesque effect.
But only the mosses were sufficiently abundant to make conspicuous masses of color to relieve the dull slaty gray of the glacial mud and gravel.
The leaves and the mossesare a substitute, not only for manure, but for ploughing.
In the pine woods of New England, after the regular lumberman has removed the standing trees, these old trunks are hauled out from the mosses and leaves which half cover them, and often furnish excellent timber.
Lichens and mosses first prepare the way for a more highly organized vegetation.
In primitive forests, when the ground is not too moist to admit of a dense growth of trees, the soil is generally so thickly covered with leaves that there is little room for ground mosses and mushrooms.
The mosses and fungi play a more important part in regulating the humidity of the air and of the soil than writers on the forest have usually assigned to them.
In the peat mosses of Denmark, Scotch firs and other trees not now growing in the same localities, are found in abundance.
The soil beneath the mighty trees is deeply covered with mosses of many harmonious tints, and decked with rank ferns, whose gracefully bending fronds attain a length of 6 to 8 feet.
Everywhere lay the fallen leaves, brown and yellow and gold;--everywhere on our trail, on the green mosses and among the dead ferns.
Mosses and Ferns, in the forest reserve, on way to Longmire Springs.
The mosses on the porch roof also speak of dampness and age.
The autumn rains were setting in, the woods were often dripping, the mosses holding the rain like so much sponge, and the shelter of a roof becoming an absolute necessity for the one who had sought it merely of a night.
Now, too, we find how beautiful are the mosses in the woods; and under them we find solitary green leaves, that have laughed all winter because they had outwitted the frost.
From here, sitting on a granite bowlder clothed in soft green mosses and having a shape into which human limbs might fit easily, the girl could see much that was fair.
The mosses and marsh were lovely and the clear pools full of living creatures.
Of all the sea-weeds proper the Carrageen mosses (Chondrus crispus and mamillosus) are the most eligible, and if dried and arranged in cases are very elegant.
The lichens and the mosses are the last plants which, owing to the simplicity of their organization, are able to develop and reproduce themselves on the Arctic rocks and under the dense layer of snow which covers them.
If any of you, my boy readers, have any such friend, do not fail to collect a quantity of the mosses common to the waters near you, and arrange them on cards for their preservation.
In gathering your mosses have an old tin can filled with water in the bottom of the boat, and after detaching from the stones, throw them immediately into the can.
Red and brown mosses are used entirely, unless the effect seems too somber, in which case a little “silver moss” may be introduced on the back to lighten it a trifle.
To gather and arrange these mosses is not as difficult a task as most people imagine.
When all themosses have been taken up on cards, fasten each to a table or shelf to dry.
Illustration] The illustrations show two different arrangements of sea-mosses for the frame.
Illustration] No boy who has lived on our coast, or, indeed, who has spent much time near the sea, could have failed to notice and admire the beautiful feathery mosses which sway about so gracefully under the surface of the water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mosses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
