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  • Horsetail Equisetum hyemale, E. arvense, which is a natural source of silica useful for strengthening bones, nails, and hair.

    THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003

  • Threatened and semi-endemic relict species present include Ranzania japonica, Hylotelephium tsugaruense, Cerastium arvense var. ovatum, Poa ogamontana, Padicularis nipponica and numerous orchids: Calanthe discolor, C. nipponica, Cypripedium yatabeanum, Gymnadenia fujisanensis, Orchis graminifolia and Tipularia japonica.

    Shirakami-sanchi (Shirakami mountains), Japan 2009

  • Approximately 160 species of phanerogams, three club-mosses Lycopodium annotinum, Diphasiastrum alpinum and Huperzia selago, two horsetails Equisetum arvense and E. variegatum, and four ferns Cystopteris fragilis, Dryopteris fragrans, Woodsia ilvensis and Woodsia glabella occur in the nominated area.

    Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland 2008

  • It shelters species such as interrupted clubmoss Lycopodium annotinum ssp. alpestre, common horsetail Equisetum arvense and in the drier parts round-leaved wintergreen Pyrola grandiflora.

    Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland 2008

  • One of the commonest forms is the field horse-tail (_Equisetum arvense_), a very abundant and widely distributed species.

    Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

  • Horsetail or scouring rush (Equisetum sp.) — Probably E. arvense, E. hiemale, and E. laevigatum, all of which grow along streams and in cienegas in the San Juan basin.

    Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico : 1937

  • Psamma (Ammophila) arenaria, Tussilago, Farfara, and Asperula odorata, multiply very readily by means of stolons; or others, such as Cirsium arvense, and Sonchus arvensis, produce buds from their roots; or yet others produce numerous seeds which are easily dispersed and may remain for a long time capable of germinating, as is the case with Calluna,

    Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

  • Gramen Xerampelino, Miliacea, praetenuis ramosaque sparsa panicula, sive Xerampelino congener, arvense, æstivum; gramen minutissimo semine.

    A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904

  • _Melampyrum arvense_, which occurs only in one spot S. of Ashwell;

    Hertfordshire Herbert Winckworth Tompkins 1901

  • Among the more troublesome weeds that infest mammoth clover are the Canada thistle (_Cirsium arvense_), the plantain (_Plantago lanceolata_), and in some instances the horse nettle

    Clovers and How to Grow Them Thomas Shaw 1880

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