The fens," Manton resumed, "are quite large and, in common with most fens, almost entirely marshland, with a few scattered patches of firm ground.

Closed-cone pine forests are found in small, scattered patches throughout the ecoregion, typically adjacent to maritime chaparral.

The fringes are dark with scattered pale patches.

Cultivation is confined to the lands along the river, and a few scattered patches round the wells elsewhere.

Now there were large, scattered patches of trees ahead- miniature forests.

Small, scattered patches studded the landscape like warts on the skin of an animal.

Coming through one last scattered patch of cloud into the valley proper, they chatted cheerfully.

There are scattered patches of dry coastal vine thicket along the margins of the floodplain.

Instead only a feeble glow emanated from small and scattered patches of phosphorescent rock in wall and roof.

In some instances, this might involve little more than opening up small, scattered patches of a forest to sunlight.