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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 548

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id of the usual fern-like characters as to behardly worthy of the name. The unbotanicalperson would place it among the grasses. Thesterile fronds are grass-like and are but one ortwo inches long. Above these rise several erectstalks, three to five inches in height, with thespore-bearing portion at… … GRAPE-FERN. MOONWORT. HART S-TUNGUE. it: Moonwort is an herb which they say willopen locks and unshoe such horses as tread uponVol. XXXVII.—130-131. conferred upon them by the botanists. The rarestof these unoffending tongues is the harts- 1034 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [Sept , tongue,…

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