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The Comptonia or sweet-fern is in flower, the brown, catkin-like blossoms are nearly as fragrant as the foliage; it is the only fern we have with woody branches.
Rural Hours 1887
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The botanical name of Comptonia was given it, after a bishop of London, of the last century, who was a great botanist.
Rural Hours 1887
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