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EQUISETUM SYLVATICUM. Lixn.i^us. 
f Wood Horsetail. J 
SYNOXYMES. 
Present name generally adopted. 
DESCRIPTIOX. 
Fertile Stem about twelve or eighteen inches high' with 
from three to five whorls of branches, each branch being 
again whorled with much smaller branches. Sheatlis 
distant, pale brown, darker at the points, divided at about 
the middle, with three or fom’ lobes which are entire or 
tootlied. 
Spike from half an inch to one inch long, with fructifica- 
tion the same as the preceding species. 
Barren Stems usually much larger than the fertile, with 
more vdiorls and branches more divided. Both barren and 
fertile stems appear about April. This is a very beautiful 
plant, and by far the most elegant of the British Horsetails: 
It has the same tendency to creep as the preceding species, 
but can.be easily introduced into rockeries by planting it in 
a large pot, sinking the pot in the earth to the rim and 
keeping the soil constantly wet. 
rsES. 
The same as all the horsetails. 
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