rusty-green

Updated: June 21, 2025

Humboldt's description is somewhat different: he calls it the "vine-leaved fucus;" says, "the leaves are circular, of a tender green, and indented at the edges, stem brown, and three inches long." What I saw of this weed rather agrees with that described by Humboldt the leaves were shaped like the vine leaf, and of a rusty-green colour.

S. A. (Simon Ansley) Ferrall - A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America

Here was the same white water as the day before, with the bluish track showing the deeper channel; the same long, monotonous coast; the same dwarf, rusty-green scrub; not a sign of life anywhere. Nothing but the endless blue-streaked white water and the endless desert shore.

Richard Le Gallienne - Pieces of Eight : Being the Authentic Narrative of a Treasure Discovered in the Bahama Islands in the Year 1903

The mother was long ago dead; Margaret could not recollect when that gray headstone, with blotches of rusty-green moss breaking out over the lettering, was not in the churchyard; and there never had been any brothers or sisters.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich - The Stillwater Tragedy