Word: equisetum
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Goldbugs have a new prospecting tool: the horsetail weed (Equisetum arvense) which grows abundantly across the U. S. and Canada. When it grows in soil with a gold content, it hungrily absorbs the metal. Last week Hans Torkel Fredrik Lundberg of Toronto told the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers that for some time Canadian prospectors had been locating gold by burning a clump of horsetail, analyzing the ashes...
...HARVARD BOTANICAL CLUB. "Observations on the Anatomy of Equisetum." Mr. A. J. Eames. Nash Lecture Room, University Museum, 4.45 P. M. Open to members of the University and of Radcliffe College...
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