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,,,,,,,-»† (EQUISETUM) †»-,,,,,,,
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,,,,-»††*# #*††»-,,,,
,,,-»††*## ,-»†»-, THE PLANT ,-»†»-, ##*††»-,,,
,,-»††*### ###*††»-,,
,-»††*#### THE EQUISETUM IS A PLANT MUCH OLDER ####*††»-,
-»††*##### THAN FERNS, WHICH ARE IN TURN MUCH #####*††»-
,-»††*#### OLDER THAN MOST TREES. IT'S LIGHT GREEN ####*††»-,
,,-»††*### TO YELLOW IN COLOR AND IS SLIGHTLY ###*††»-,,
,,,-»††*## TRANSPARENT. ##*††»-,,,
,,,,-»††*# #*††»-,,,,
,,,,,-»††* THE PLANT HAS A SPINE. EACH VERTEBRA IS *††»-,,,,,
,,,,,,-»†† STACKED UPON THE NEXT, WITH SPOKELIKE ††»-,,,,,,
,,,,,,,-»† RIBS RADIATING OUTWARD. EVEN SO, IT'S †»-,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,-» VERY LIGHT, BEING HOLLOW. IT'S ROUGHLY »-,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,- THE HEIGHT OF A FOXES TAIL, AND SHARES -,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,, A SIMILAR PLUMAGE. ,,,,,,,,,,
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,,,,,,,,-» IT LIKES PARTIAL SHADE AND VERY DAMP »-,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,-»† AREAS †»-,,,,,,,
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,,,,,-»††* *††»-,,,,,
,,,,-»††*# #*††»-,,,,
,,,-»††*## ,-»†»-, IN MAGIC ,-»†»-, ##*††»-,,,
,,-»††*### ###*††»-,,
,-»††*#### WHEN A COLONY NUMBERS HIGH ENOUGH, IT ####*††»-,
-»††*##### SLICES THE AIR IN THE FOREST INTO #####*††»-
,-»††*#### SEPARATE PLANES, A FEW CENTIMETERS IN ####*††»-,
,,-»††*### HEIGHT. TIME CAN GET DIFFRACTED IN ###*††»-,,
,,,-»††*## THESE, HITTING EACH IN TURN IN A ##*††»-,,,
,,,,-»††*# SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT ANGLE, AND #*††»-,,,,
,,,,,-»††* EVENTUALLY SPREAD THIN. *††»-,,,,,
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