Moving about here is like balancing in the canopy of a huge moss-covered tree, the ground one or two meters beneath a lattice of roots and prostrate trunks of trees that twist up, stunted, into the mist that drips incessantly.
This species is saprobic, and is found growing in groups on the ground or on moss-covered decaying wood, especially amongst fallen pine needles.
The mannequin's head was covered with a moss-covered box.
Some of the tropical and subtropical species of Urticaceae are shrubs or trees; many of the herbaceous species form dense ground covers in moist climates or grow as epiphytes on moss-covered tree trunks and tree branches in humid regions.
According to folk tradition Marko never died; he lives on in a cave, in a moss-covered den or in an unknown land.
The soil under the moss-covered concrete bank had eroded, leaving a hollow area and a stream of water about 12 feet deep, Preciado said.
It could be the tumbledown, moss-covered drystone walls marking the boundaries of land that has been farmed since the arrival of the Norse settlers.
You step into the forest and wade through ferns and ground-hugging oxalis, dodge poison oak, glance at moss-covered maples and Douglas firs.
Here the earth was a dark, lumpy, moss-covered mass, sutured onto the grassy green of Heimaey like a clumsy skin graft. .
These areas, below 3,000 feet, have a Tolkienesque landscape, with bright green, moss-covered trees and aquamarine water that locals dub "glacier milk" because the ground-up stones from glaciers give it an ethereal color.
In the moist forests they inhabit, their runways can be found on the ground, along fallen logs, and under and around tree roots and moss-covered rocks.
