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A. B. FROST abundant Asplenium Author banks beautiful BEETON'S Ben Lawers beneath beside Bog-moss botanists branches BRET HARTE British Ferns brown Bryum capsules Children cloth gilt Coloured Illustrations Coloured Pictures Coloured Plates common covered Dartmoor E. P. ROE earth elongate Engravings favourite Feather-moss fern FERNS AND MOSSES flowers forest fronds fruit-stalks full-page gathered green growing places growing-places Hart's-tongue Helen's Babies HOME JOURNAL contains Hooker inches indusium interesting Ireland JOHN HABBERTON leaves Les Misérables linear Linnæus Little Susy's localities LOCK London luxuriantly margin mass of thecæ mid-vein Mnium moist moss mountains numerous Nursery Rhymes oaks occasionally pellucid picture boards Picture Book pinnæ pinnate pinnulæ plant Polypodium Profusely rachis rhizoma roots Salisbury Square Scotland seeds Series shady shoots species specimens Spleenwort stalks stems stones Stories stream sunbeams SUSAN COOLIDGE SYLVIA'S HOME JOURNAL thread-moss trees tufts vegetable VICTOR HUGO Wales walls WARD wild winter Withering woods young
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