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n. Plural form of lichen.

"The nearest analogue to this remarkable partnership is to be found in the vegetable kingdom, where, as the researches of Schwendener, Bornet, and Stahl have shown, we have certain algæ and fungi associating themselves into the colonies we are accustomed to call lichens, so that we may not unfairly call our agricultural Radiolarians and anemones"

lichens   

horsetail lichen    crab's-eye lichen    yellow wall-lichen    wild lichen    foliaceous lichen   

reindeer moss    Iceland moss    lichen planus    moss    fungus    lichened    algae   

lichenes    rock moss    tree moss   

Steichen    liken   

moss    algae    fungus    brushwood    fern    seaweed    herbage    twig    ivy    furze