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####*††~,¨ THE EQUISETUM IS A PLANT MUCH OLDER ¨,~††*####
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##†††††~,¨ OLDER THAN MOST TREES. IT'S LIGHT GREEN ¨,~†††††##
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#**†††,¨¨¨ 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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##***††~,¨ 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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