The one-celled plants called algae often divide and cling together; and the seaweeds are huge colonies of such cells.

The seas of Demeter swarmed with organisms, true, enough to create and sustain air that humans could breathe; but just a few primitive plants and creatures clung precariously to existence along the shores.

Even if it was the ice that had made this place barren, it was the wind that kept it so; any soil which formed was whipped away in a cloud of dust, and only the hardiest plants could find root and cling to the rock.

Tough-looking plants clung to the rocks for protection in the sheltered spots.

Even the plants still clung close to the sea, existing, perhaps, only upon rocky surfaces so close to the beach that occasional spray could reach them.

Enormous, withered, cryptogamous plants with the habit of vines, that crumbled at a touch, were clinging to the hull and the adjacent rocks.

Worse, every house had a grating below the window, where straggling plants clung to dripping black earth.

There is also a great deal of creeper activity: plants, threads and small animals attaching themselves to larger things, clinging to or smothering their hosts.

Blasted plants clung here and there on the volcanic mountainside.

The plants cling to the 700-sq.