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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 425

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that no bugs would be arranged so regularly on all parts ofthe leaf. By placing a single dot under a mag-nifier, we may see at once that it is a cluster oftiny stalked globes. Within these globes area great many still smaller one-celled bodiescalled spores, too small to be properly seenwithout a… … rfi V THE SPORF CLUSTERS ARE FOUND ON THE BACKS OF FULL-GROWN FERN-LEAVES, AND APPEAR LIKE SMALL DOTS OR LINES. would doubtless be more ferns than other plants,for a single fern produces millions of spores every igoi.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 94I

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