Disley to Middlewood. 1 5 



ral feet high, and with many stories of horizontal and 

 wire-like green branches, that divide and subdivide ; 

 lastly, in winter we seem to have some battle-field 



FIG. 4. Field Horse-tail. 



FIG. 3. Sylvan Horse-tail. 



before us the withered stems lying about, all bent and 

 broken, like so many skeletons. Dust out the green 

 seeds from the heads of the April stems, and when 

 placed in the microscope they present in their move- 



