Word: lichen
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...point outside of San Jose took the party to particularly abundant collecting grounds on Los Cerros de Zurqui. These three, small peaks, to the east of Mt. Barba, offer fine panoramas of the great Central Valley, a thousand feet below: Despite limited time, quantities of specimens, especially rich in lichen material, rewarded the efforts of the collectors...
...interested in the reindeer industry as a new meat source. Driver of the herd is Andrew Bahr, expert Lapp herder, who is accompanied by three other Laplanders, six Eskimos, a medical attendant and a member of the Alaskan Geographical Survey Department. Reindeer fare in winter is the hardy Alaskan lichen; to get it deer must paw through a foot of snow. In summer they graze on greens, willow buds, blueberries...
...Dodge, Curator of the Farlow Reference Library and Herbarium of the University, has been delegated to obtain additional material for a volume on the lichen flora of Costa Rica and to study type material of lichens in several European herbaria. Dr. Dodge is chairman of the committee on the New England Flora of the Boston Mycological Club, and has published many papers on the subject of lichens...
...Washington, Professor Olaf Opsjon of Spokane probed and puzzled over ideographs found hidden beneath moss and lichen on a lava boulder near a burial mound. Other archaeologists awaited Professor Opsjon's reasons for believing that the runes were the work of a band of Norsemen in 1010 A. D., including 24 men, 7 women and a baby, who recorded their defeat by Indians during a Norse exploration hitherto unsuspected by latterday historians...
...attaching itself to rocks while feeding; rare arctic birds in little-known summer plumage; land plants which eschew stems to snuggle next the ground and escape the wind; sea kelp, whose writhing shapes even Eskimos often mistook for animal life; carpets of wildflowers, luxuriant timothy, gaudy mosaics of lichen, orange and purple, on the black rock cliffs; the maniacal laughter of sky-filling clouds of dovekies (little auks...