bog-moss

There were very few traces of the past winter's fire visible at Dave's home as Dick approached, ran his punt on to the soft bog-moss, and landed, securing his rope to a tree, and there were no signs of Dave.

Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870

The reptile was crossing the track from a tuft of alders, and seemed to be about three feet long and unusually thick, while, as it reached the dense heath and rushes, interspersed with grey coral moss on that side, it disappeared for a few moments, and they thought it had gone; but directly after it reappeared, gliding over a rounded tuft of bog-moss, and continued its way.

Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870

He loves the little moist valleys between the pine-clad mountains, where a bit of light woods is made an island by the soft bog-moss that surrounds it.

Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners Elliott Coues 1870

Every step the lad took showed more plainly how treacherous was the surface round the tarn; for it was entirely composed of bog-moss -- that pretty moss that turns of a creamy white, tinged with pink or salmon colour, when dried -- and soon Master Harry could only progress by stepping daintily upon the little bunches of heath that grew amidst it, or upon the occasional tufts of last year's dead reeds and rushes.

Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home George Manville Fenn 1870

The bog-moss (sphagnum palustre,) contains tannin, which being yielded to the water by the decay of the moss, would have still more antiseptic operation (or would the more resist decomposition,) than the acid alone, if without tannin.

Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands 1861

In the wettest spots, and in all the deepest depressions where the stagnant rain-water remained longest, the bog-moss would begin to grow, and would increase as circumstances favored its growth.

Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands 1861

The infant is placed in the bag having its lower extremities wrapped up in soft sphagnum or bog-moss, and may be hung up in the tent or to the branch of a tree without the least danger of tumbling out; or in a journey suspended on the mother's back by a band which crosses the forehead so as to leave her hands perfectly free.

The Journey to the Polar Sea John Franklin 1816

The infant is placed in the bag having its lower extremities wrapt up in soft sphagnum or bog-moss, and may be hung up in the tent, or to the branch of a tree, without the least danger of tumbling out; or in a journey suspended on the mother's back, by a band which crosses the forehead, so as to leave her hands perfectly free.

Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 John Franklin 1816

And the difficulty is much increased by the ground being all of the wettest and softest of miry bog, which but partially resists the sinking of footsteps, by aid of the interlaced mat of living roots of shrubs below the surface -- and on some spots of less tangled cover, with the carpet of the thick-growing but diminitive plants of bog-moss, (sphagnum palustre?) The destruction, by the last great fire, of valuable and living timber trees was enormous.

Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands 1861