Sometimes only a few strings of moss and a few sprays of selaginella are to be seen on the outside of the nest; while, on the other hand, in some nests the entire outer surface is completely covered over with green moss, not only on the sides, but on the upper margin, so as to conceal completely the rest of the materials of the nest, and in all the nine nests before me the extent to which the moss is used varies.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
It was a huge shallow cup, composed mainly of moss, bound together with stems of creepers and fronds of a selaginella, and lined with coarse roots and broken pieces of dry grass.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
In the second genus, Miadesmia, the seed-bearing plant was herbaceous, and much like a recent selaginella.
"Darwin and Modern Science"
A.C. Seward and Others