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base, and, with the exception of the second and third 
pairs, are also confluent at the base: the nae in- 
the pinnule, each bearing a circular cluster of seeds 
nm the edge of the — so that together a 
of England are few and widely separated, 
at Tintagel, in Cornwall; on Dartmoor, at 
shire; and at Amstrey Quarry, in Hereford- 
abundantly; a little further northward, on 
