. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . recipitated either alongthe stem or from the edge of the leaf. Nasturtium (TropcEoluni).—You will generally find theleaves all turned edge upward, and they flash with a finefrost-like sheen. Horse-tail (Equisetum).—The reader will rememberthe scouring-rush of the early settlers, described afew \veeks ago, a plant with jointed hollow stems andcircular fringes of articulated leaves, so common in theswamps. There are various species of the horse-tails,some of which, like the true scouring-rush, are al-most de
. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . recipitated either alongthe stem or from the edge of the leaf. Nasturtium (TropcEoluni).—You will generally find theleaves all turned edge upward, and they flash with a finefrost-like sheen. Horse-tail (Equisetum).—The reader will rememberthe scouring-rush of the early settlers, described afew \veeks ago, a plant with jointed hollow stems andcircular fringes of articulated leaves, so common in theswamps. There are various species of the horse-tails,some of which, like the true scouring-rush, are al-most destitute of leafy growth, while others are denselyplumed with curved and drooping whorls of slenderspray. They are pretty enough by day, but in the nightthey are transformed to very marvels—fairy fountainsof glittering brilliants, each joint in the thousands ofdrooping leaves being set with a diamond. Taken allin all, with its antique lineage for the geologist, its cu-rious squirming spores for the microscopist, its grittystems for the housewife, its flinty tube for the chemist,.
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