单词 | cotton grass |
例句 | The chilly air tingled her nose and she noticed that the cotton grasses by the pond were seeding out into white puffs. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind blew across the wolf den, shattering the heads of the cotton grass and shooting their seedlets south with the birds. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When the cotton grass heads were gone, the winds would lift the snow from the ground to the air and she would not be able to see her feet. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Days in the arctic tundra are spent navigating the fjord’s maze of floating icebergs by zodiac boat, kayaking the Greenland Sea, and scouting Arctic fox, hare, and loon during treks through fields of cotton grass. These 6 Wilderness Retreats Will Have You Dreaming of the Great Outdoors 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Southwards, the coast yields to low stands of dwarf birch and willow, sphagnum bogs of arctic cotton grass, pitcher plants, blueberries, lingonberries, and cloudberries. The Fight for the Reindeer 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The affected moorlands are protected by UK and European law for important habitats such as blanket bog, heather and cotton grass. Off-roaders 'damaging wildlife' 2014-04-19T12:33:48Z That involves blocking up drainage gullies and reseeding and replanting the bogs with cotton grass, as well as laying cut heather on them. 'Ambitious' plan for High Peak Moors 2013-09-20T01:13:40Z The Flow Country's peatlands stemmed from damp and cool conditions that encouraged the growth of sphagnum moss and cotton grasses since the last Ice Age, more than 10,000 years ago. £4m lottery boost to restore bog 2012-10-11T01:01:13Z "If you look at the dry peat beneath your feet, you will see traces of 3,000-year-old cotton grass," he said. Bog 'recovering' after extraction 2012-10-02T11:11:55Z In the low marshy meadows were willows, 51 a kind of reed mace, cotton grass, rushes, and, in the water, adder's tongue. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z There was no wind, not a breath, but the dew lay heavy on the moss, on the green heather and stunted shrubs, and draggled the snow-white plumes of the lovely cotton grass. In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z But vascular plants such as cotton grass and shrubs are growing well again, and there is a good crop of cloudberries at the site, she said. Huge 2007 tundra fire seen as ominous sign for climate 2011-07-29T19:14:51Z Then let him make his way across a bit of pleasant moorland—flushed with maidenhair and white with cotton grass, and fragrant with the Orchis conopsia, well deserving its epithet odoratissima. Spare Hours He added that there were also areas of cotton grass, which he said were "a common sight on moss lands". Bog 'recovering' after extraction 2012-10-02T11:11:55Z Of a like nature are fruits of thistles, fireweed, prickly lettuce, sow thistles, scabiosa, valerian, cat-tail flag, cotton grass, some anemones, smoke tree, virgin's bower, and some of the grasses. Seed Dispersal Deep river pools and deceitful morasses, over which the cotton grass flutters its white tassels, are thought to be the "gates" of their country, where they possess diminutive flocks and herds of their own. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts And you must gather cotton grass for lamp wicks. Modern Icelandic Plays Eyvind of the Hills; The Hraun Farm Tall cotton grass flaunted up suddenly through the slaty haze of the night of pursuit. Patsy I don't know how to cook it; and as for my pillow, I can stuff it with cotton grass. East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon We found a short valley between rugged tors which led to an open, grassy space flecked over with the white cotton grass. The Hound of the Baskervilles From amid a tuft of cotton grass which bore it up out of the slime some dark thing was projecting. The Hound of the Baskervilles |
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