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abundantly fibrous. In luxuriant specimens they are four or five 

 inches long, and almost as thick and numerous as in the bird's-nest 



a. Fruit, natural size. 



CE nan the pimpinelloicles. 

 6. The same magnified. c. The root, natural size. 



orchis. But though shorter in smaller plants, their long, slender cha- 

 racter is always remarkable. Another curious trait in the root of this 



