“Like adventurers, we followed him up and up through the bracken, heather and gorse, thrashing the undergrowth aside with sticks.”

“Elsewhere, dozens of residents had to be evacuated in Gwent, Wales, where hundreds of mature trees, bracken, gorse and shrubs were destroyed.”

“Given the sandy soils, the ground flora in these areas is dominated by bracken, wavy hair grass and common cow wheat.”

“The track was soft and mossy, and it led though ferns and brackens, thickets of brambles and groves of tall Himalayan cedar trees.”

“Plantations of brackens and garlic are the main source of vegetable income for islanders.”

“Every sough of the wind among the brackens was a dread presage.”