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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 90

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THE COTTON-HEAD FORM. seems as if little balls or wads of cotton hadthere been scattered broadcast. These balls con-ceal the ends of the young fern fronds, the bot-anist using the term circinate to describe thisform of rolling or unrolling. As soon as thefern has grown an inch or two in height,… … THE FIDDLE-HEAD FORM. 652 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [May, A MUCH ADVERTISED TOAD After a blast about one hundred feet below thesurface in the lime rock of a mine thirty milesnorth of Winnemucca, Nevada, Mr. Charles Van

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