We disappeared early one afternoon, and, after a lordly feast of roast rabbit and mushrooms, sank to sleep on a fragrant bed of carefully selected fronds of dry bracken.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
They told him the city of Bombay was hidden under those fronds.
"Son of Power"
Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost
The great blechnum ferns, with fronds three or four feet long, are interspersed with the thimble-berry bushes, and border the road.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash