lichen

“We resemble a successful lichen, a ravaging bloom of algae, a mold enveloping a fruit,” reads the text.

That grey old house, with high lichen-stained roof and narrow windows—where but in sunny France could one see its like?

To these they often add tufts of wool, and lichen, and the whole is fastened together by a kind of clay.

As far as I could see there were no grass, no weeds, no flowers; the earth was covered with a kind of lichen, uniformly blue.

The thin tendrils of a lichen, here and there twining on a damp mass of stone, are the only traces of life.

A boy pushed the bracken and ferny grey and green wattle sprays from before a lichen-grown wooden cross.