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Three Young Crusoe s 



flowering fern, its long leaves tipped with clusters of 

 tiny green balls, which became brown and dusty 

 with age. Another was the resurrection tern, that 

 lives on trunks of trees and curls up in dry weather 

 and opens out fresh and green after a rain. 



Fig. 39. A tree-fern In a tropical torest. 



