horsetails

Still, if you have ever gathered "horsetails," you will see at once that those trees in the foreground of the picture (Fig. 51), with leaves arranged in stars round the branches, are only larger copies of the little marsh-plants; and the seed-vessels of the two plants are almost exactly the same.

The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella B. Buckley 1884

Vertical plants such as horsetails, rushes and papyrus are a key element in designing such an environment and one of the loveliest - and lesser known - of these moisture-loving verticals is Baumea rubiginosa 'Variegata,' otherwise known as variegated striped rush.

SFGate: Top News Stories Erle Nickel 2011

Silica is also important in many cells that require it to retain rigidity in cells walls, such as horsetails or sponges.

CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

"horsetails," of the present; but they bore characteristics of higher classes in the woody structures of their stems.

The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

Here over thirteen hundred footprints of the plant-eating apatosaurus a.k.a. brontosaurus and the carnivorous three-toed allosaurus, ripple marks, a few clams, a palm frond and some horsetails, fish bones, ooids have all solidified into solid rock.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

Here over thirteen hundred footprints of the plant-eating apatosaurus a.k.a. brontosaurus and the carnivorous three-toed allosaurus, ripple marks, a few clams, a palm frond and some horsetails, fish bones, ooids have all solidified into solid rock.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

Here over thirteen hundred footprints of the plant-eating apatosaurus a.k.a. brontosaurus and the carnivorous three-toed allosaurus, ripple marks, a few clams, a palm frond and some horsetails, fish bones, ooids have all solidified into solid rock.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

Here over thirteen hundred footprints of the plant-eating apatosaurus a.k.a. brontosaurus and the carnivorous three-toed allosaurus, ripple marks, a few clams, a palm frond and some horsetails, fish bones, ooids have all solidified into solid rock.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

When we woke, the sky was a washed blue streaked with high thin horsetails and the waves thundered in just overhead high, row after row.

Kook Peter Heller 2010

The tall horsetails Nash liked so much waltz up the track to greet me: chimney brushes on gartered stems.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009