CRYPTOGAMIA. MISCELLANEA. Equisetum. 
tems phe crlindient those which bear 
frctifiations after flowering becoming eee and sometimes 
throwing out lateral branches ; those which are barren tapering 
gradually to the end, and mostly continuing bast of leaves. The 
shoots of next year ‘upwards of an inch long, from the side of 
the “age at iS knots, which throw out fibrous roots. St. 
hich, as 
all the species of this genus are jointed like the eo were sur. 
ounded at thei r joi oints 3 a series of 6,7 7, or 8 bulbs, arranged 
e a fig, with a iene umbilicus at the larger end; ee 
young of a tawny brown colour and mise srben old black and 
smooth : the pulp within bess and similar in consistence to 
apple or potatoe. In the succeeding month of April, I had the 
ood to obserye many oe ese bodies in a state of vegetation, 
ac 
tionable loss of juice in the sustaining bulb. ‘These Wire very 
different in strength, size, and appearance, from the recent shoots 
immediately proceeding out of the parent root. None of the 
bulbs were found within a foot or more of the horizontal surface 
of theearth. In the lower figure of the drawing is represented a 
transverse section of the root, encircled by a whirl of bulbs, 
co = number pees correspond with the radial partitions 
of 6,7, 8, &c. ‘The upper figure exhibits a portion of the root 
with only two bulbs, to avoid confusion, in a state of vegeta- 
tion :’—These bulbs _differ much in dimensions from the size of 
ter, Pp 
tion may be conveniently attended to; for the young g shoots, | in 
Smooth Horsetail. Com in the beds of rivers near the 
banks : also shallow ponds, a ditches in marshes 
>. May, June. 
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