He found a tall, palm-like tree, with dead brown fronds piled at its base.
A nearby palm tree wore a ruffled collar of dead brown fronds.
Silent and unseen, they hung like foul fruit among the layers of collapsed brown fronds.
It has a slender black trunk that is usually surrounded by many dead brown fronds.
The old man took a damp brown frond between his thumb and forefinger, and stared at it intently.
Scytosiphon lomentaria has cylindrical, shiny, olive brown, unbranched fronds up to 400 mm long.
About a quarter of the area was covered by tall brown fronds which Gibson recognised at once.
Stuffing the map back into his pocket, he went on, higher, through the crackling brown fronds of the bracken.
One branch of palm, brown fronds drooping like feathers, seemed to point inland.
I came presently into a hollow basin bristling with tall, brown, dry fronds about its edge, and I sat down under these to rest and cool.