Fern Sentence Examples

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  • Growing a fern is a great start to learning how to lok after your garden.

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  • There are many varieties of fern.

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  • If we consider a leaf of the common fern we find that in its young condition it is closely rolled up, the upper or ventral surface being quite concealed.

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  • When I saw the fern, I was reminded of primitive plants that I saw in a history video.

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  • Hanging up fern plants on a front porch makes a home look welcoming without being too elaborately decorated.

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  • The fern plants became overwhelmingly large, taking over the entire front porch of the abandoned house.

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  • In general the soil is extremely fertile, and where it is naturally drained a rich vegetation of fern and flax occurs.

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  • Java fern growing on it.

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  • The xylem and phloem also, rarely form perfectly continuous layers as they do in a solenostelic fern.

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  • Pomegranate root, or, better, the sulphate of pelletierine in dose of 5 grains with an equal quantity of tannic acid, may be used to replace the male fern.

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  • Hanging up fern plants on a front porch makes a home lookwelcoming without being too elaborately decorated.

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  • This Jurassic species bore bipinnate fronds not unlike those of the South African, Australian, and New Zealand Fern Todea barbara, which were characterized by a stout rachis and short broad pinnules bearing numerous large sporangia covering the under surface of the lamina.

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  • Portland was the birthplace of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Brackett Reed, Edward Preble and his nephew George Henry Preble, Mrs Parton ("Fanny Fern"), Nathaniel Parker Willis, Seargent Smith Prentiss and Neal Dow, and it was the home of William Pitt Fessenden, Theophilus Parsons and Simon Greenleaf.

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  • Suede Print Micro comes in charcoal, coffee or fern.

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  • Goebel has shown that if the developing foliage-leaves of the fern Onoclea strut/iiopieris be removed as they are formed, the subsequently developed sporophylls assume more or less completely the habit of foliage-leaves, and may be sterile.

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  • In the more wooded areas royal fern and lemon-scented fern grow.

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  • This deciduous fern makes the perfect addition to moist margins of a pond or stream in sun or partial shade.

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  • In the gardens you will find one the finest limestone rockery 's which contains one of the largest fern collections in Britain.

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  • These successive new tissues, appearing in the centre of the stele, as the stem of a higher fern is traced upwards from its first formed parts, are all in.

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  • The country in general is a fern paradise, and the iridescent creeping Selaginella (akin to Lycopodium) festoons the undergrowth by the wayside.

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  • Others have hollow or funnel-shaped ends and are constricted at the middle like a dice cup. In some rocks small rod-like microlites are grouped together in a regular way to form growths which resemble fir branches, fern leaves, brushes or networks, in the same manner as minute needles of ice produce star-like snow crystals or the frost growths on a window pane.

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  • Protect endive, celery, artichoke and sea-kale with stable-litter or fern, or by planting the former in frames; take up late cauliflower, early broccoli and lettuces, and place them in sheltered pits or lay them in an open shed; earth up celery; manure and dress up asparagus beds.

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  • It is significant that at this time the Fern gerichte, or Fehmic Fehmic Courts, vastly extended the sphere of courts.

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  • From the germinated spore of a fern plant, which must not be Life his tory.

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  • As the result of fertilization of an ovum produced by this, the fern plant (sporophyte, asexual generation) originates; from it spores are ultimately set free,.

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  • The tree fern (Dicksonia antarctica) in the mountain ravines is especially remarkable.

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  • Various orchids were widespread, and Adder 's tongue fern was common on unploughed pasture.

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  • To the unaccustomed eye, one fern can look pretty much like another lacy and green.

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  • The fern plants became overwhelmingly large, taking over the entire front porch of theabandoned house.

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  • A. crispus is a beautiful little British Fern found in mountainous districts.

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  • There is a small population of the native Salad Burnet and scattered clumps of the litte Fern grass.

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  • At the other end, Fern showed good footwork down the right & his cross found Lee at the back stick.

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  • B, Prothallus bearing a young fern plant; b, first leaf; w, primary root.

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  • When I saw the fern, I was reminded ofprimitive plants that I saw in a history video.

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  • At certain times of the year, you can find fern spores on the abaxial surface of the leaves.

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  • O. vulgatum is a native Fern not often seen in gardens; found in most meadows; and the best position for it therefore is in colonies in the hardy fernery or the moist stiff soil in the rock garden.

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  • A noble evergreen Tree Fern, having a stout trunk, 30 feet high or more, the fronds forming a magnificent crown, often 20 to 30 feet across.

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  • The fronds are held very erect upon hairy stems, are soft in texture, and dry prettily in the autumn, when the tiny glands on the under surface give out a pleasing fragrance to which the plant owes its name of the Hay-scented Fern.

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  • Those planted later will only require a covering of Fern, which should be removed as the foliage appears.

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  • The Bracken Fern (P. aquilina), the only thoroughly hardy species of this genus, is generally so common as not to need cultivation.

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  • The leaves of this Day Lily were overhanging the banks of the stream, intermingled with the Fern fronds, while the flower-heads, tall and straight, were towering upwards.

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  • The foliage, as graceful as a Fern, is of a deep, lustrous green, and silvery white beneath.

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  • L. crenulata is similar, but not quite so hardy, though it succeeds in the mildest localities, as will also the Chili L. chilensis, a tree Fern of noble growth.

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  • Lomaria Procera - A handsome large-growing Fern, thriving in the open air in the milder parts of Britain, particularly where the atmosphere is moist, as in Ireland and the south-west of England.

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  • This bushy little tuft resembles the Maiden-hair Fern, and its leaves are just as pretty for mixing with cut flowers, and last much longer.

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  • M. anthriscifolia is an elegant Fern, 6 to 12 inches high, hardy, deciduous, charming in spring and summer, and of easy culture.

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  • H. millefolium is a very elegant New Zealand Fern, with a stout and wide-spreading rhizome, from which arise erect light green fronds, 1 to 1 1/2 feet high, very finely cut.

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  • Besides P. vulgare and its varieties, there are several deciduous kinds, such as P. dryopteris (Oak Fern), of which P. d. plumosum is the best form, and P. phegopteris (Beech Fern), well known to all Fern lovers.

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  • P. alpestre resembles the Lady Fern, with fronds dark green, and sometimes exceeding 2 feet in length.

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  • A. aculeatum is best in rich loam, with sand and leaf-mould, well-drained, and so does the Male Fern.

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  • Sweet Fern (Myrica (Comptonia) Asplenifolia) - A quaint little shrub 2 to 3 feet high, with Fern-like long, cut into rounded lobes, and aromatic leaves.

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  • American Fern, remarkable for its narrow fronds, which taper into slender prolongations, and take root at the tips like runners, giving rise to young plants.

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  • Fern's Guitars - This site is in Dutch, but the guitars are clearly visible as are the prices listed in Euros.

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  • There are also swamp varieties of marsh marigold, swamp fern, and Canadian burnet.

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  • The background of the suit is white, but it does feature a colorful arrangement of fern green, purple and blue.

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  • Available colors are Victoria Plum, Tea rose, Sea Grass, Holly Fern, and Chinese Wisteria.

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  • A boat ride to the Fern Grotto where large ferns drape the landscape, can be very romantic.

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  • In dry gourds, they were served a hot tea made from the ground leaves of something Bordeaux called the lip fern.

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  • When found detached these leaves were taken for the fronds of a Fern.

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  • The magnificent Devonian Fern Archaeopteris hibernica, with a somewhat Adiantiform habit, bore special fertile pinnae; the fructification is still imperfectly understood, but the presence of stipules, observed by Kidston, has been adduced in support of Marattiaceous affinities.

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  • The family as a whole is of great interest, as presenting points of contact with various recent orders, especially Hymenophyllaceae, Osmundaceae and Ophioglossaceae; the group appears to have been a synthetic one, belonging to a primitive stock (the Primofilices of Arber) from which the later Fern families may have sprung.

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  • This is the first case in which the pollen-bearing organs of a Ptoridosperm have been identified with certainty It will be seen that, while the seeds of Lyginodendron were of an advanced Cycadean type, the microsporangiate organs were more like those of a Fern, the reproductive organs thus showing the same combination of characters which appears in the vegetative ct pc. A, Micropylar region.

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  • Fertile leaflets, day, while fern like in habit bearing sporangia, and sterile, were Cycadean in structure.

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  • Associated with Glossopteris occurs another fern, Gangamopteris, usually recognized by the absence of a well marked midrib, though this character does not always afford a satisfactory distinguishing feature.

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  • In view of recent discoveries which have demonstrated the Pteridosperm nature of many supposed ferns of Palaeozoic age, we must admit the possibility that the term fern as applied to Glossopteris and Gangamopteris may be incorrect.

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  • Another plant found in the Vosges sandstones - Neuropteridium grandifolium - is also closely allied to species of the same i ` fern " recorded from the.

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  • Arborescent Pteridophytes are barely represented, and such dominant types as Lepidodendron, Sigillaria, Calamites and Sphenophyllum have practically ceased to exist; Cycads and Conifers have assumed the leading role, and the still luxuriant fern vegetation has put on a different aspect.

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  • The plants include a Fern, Onoclea hebridica, close to a living American form; four Gymnosperms belonging to the genera Cryptomeria, Ginkgo, Taxus and Podocarpus; Dicotyledons of about 30 species, several of which have been figured.

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  • Vascular Cryptogams still include one or two large horsetails with stems over an inch thick, and also 37 species of Fern, amongst the most interesting of which are 5 species belonging to the climbing Lygodium, a genus now living in Java.

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  • It is Britain's most abundant fern and started its take-over bid as early settlers slashed and burned clearings in woodland across Britain.

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  • Over one hundred species of plant have been recorded here, including green winged orchid and adder's tongue fern.

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  • It was established in 1893 with the objective of fostering interest in ferns and fern allies.

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  • The fens are home to the nationally rare crested buckler fern.

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  • The leaves resemble those of the maidenhair fern, hence its common name.

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  • Pepper saxifrage, normally a lowland plant, and adder's-tongue fern also occur here.

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  • Several rose species are found here and hart's-tongue fern is also present.

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  • Here and there, a tree fern, the forlorn remnant of cloud forest, punctuates the scenery.

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  • Yesterday, the third time we had used it, I was shredding dead tree fern fronds.

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  • To the north our neighbors agricultural land rises steeply, and has gorse and fern growing, which is a haven for wild life.

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  • Bracken fern is a weed species mainly found on rough grazing.

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  • Foxglove and tormentil in flower, with lady fern, hard fern and wood horsetail making a good display in the damper areas.

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  • Bracken and male fern were gathered from the woods during the 17th and 18th centuries, and burned to make potash for bleaching linen.

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  • To date three volumes have been published covering ferns and fern allies, orchids and gymnosperms and non-orchid monocotyledon.

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  • This common fern unlike almost all other species found in Cornwall, as its light green leaves do not have separate pinnae.

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  • There is a rich fern and bryophyte community including black spleenwort.

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  • People used to believe that if a person carried fern spores, they would become invisible.

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  • It is the largest tree fern in NZ, and possibly the world?

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  • The " Fern Men " returned home victorious with only one lost.

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  • The Socialist party, which had grown powerful under a series of weak-kneed administrations, now began to show signs of division; on the one hand there was the revolutionary wing, led by Signor Enrico Fern, the Mantuan deputy, which advocated a policy of uncompromising class warfare, and on the other the riformisti, or moderate Socialists, led by Signor Filippo Turati, deputy for Milan, who adopted a more conciliatory attitude and were ready to ally themselves with other parliamentary parties.

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  • Polycycly was derived independently from monocycly in solenostelic and in dictyostelic forms. In the formation of the stem of any fern characterized in the adult condition by one of the more advanced types of vascular structure all stages of increase in complexity from the haplostele of the first-formed stem to the particular condition characteristic of the adult stem are gradually passed through by a series of changes exactly parallel with those which we are led to suppose, from the evidence obtained by a comparison of the adult forms, must have taken place in the evolution of the race, There is no more striking case in the plantkingdom of the parallel between ontogeny (development of the individual) and phylogeny (development of the race) so well known in many groups of animals.

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  • Watson further brought out the striking fact that the west and east of Britain each had species peculiar to it; the former he characterized as Atlantic, the latter as Germanic. The Cornish heath (Erica vagans) and the maiden-hair fern (Adiantum CapillusVeneris) may serve as instances of the one, the man-orchis (Aceras anthropophora) and Reseda lutea of the other.

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  • Fern life is abundant; 126 species are indigenous, two being tree-ferns.

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  • In 1466 the abbess of St Croix of Poitiers received a gross of glasses from the glass-works of La Ferriêre, for the privilege of gathering fern for the manufacture of potash.

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  • He established works in Crutched Friars, and to him is probably due the introduction of the use of soda-ash, made from seaweed and seaside plants, in place of the crude potash made from fern and wood ashes.

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  • The vermifuge is given in the early morning, and should consist of the liquid extract of felix mas, male fern, one drachm in emulsion or in capsules to be followed in half an hour by a calomel purgative.

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  • His views were entirely changed, however, on the execution of Patrick Hamilton, abbot of Fern, in 1528.

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  • The natives are in the habit of making holes in the aa, and planting in them banana shoots or sweet-potato cuttings, and though the holes are simply filled with stones or fern leaves, the plants grow and in due time are productive.

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  • In habits the kakapo is almost wholly nocturnal, 3 hiding in holes (which in some instances it seems to make for itself) under the roots of trees or rocks during the day time, and only issuing forth about sunset to seek its food, which is solely vegetable in kind, and consists of the twigs, leaves, seeds and fruits of trees, grass and fern roots - some observers say mosses also.

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  • A single fern specimen obtained by Littledale (Polypodium hastatum) is indicative of eastern China.

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  • Post-positions, pa or be and ma, are required by the noun (substantive or adjective) that is to be singled out; po or bo (masc.) and mo (fern.) are used for distinction of gender or for emphasis.

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  • Three crannogs in Dowalton Loch, Wigtownshire, examined by Lord Lovaine in 1863, were found to be constructed of layers of fern and birch and hazel branches, mixed with boulders and penetrated by oak piles, while above all there was a surface layer of stones and soil.

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  • Some 320 species of fern have been collected, and there are large numbers of spiny and prickly plants, as well as numerous grasses, reeds and rushes, many of them of great service in the native manufactures of mats, hats, baskets, &c.

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  • American twining Fern, hardy in a deep, peaty, moist soil if in a sheltered and partially shady position.

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  • Few plants surpass a strong, well-flowered clump of Hemerocallis fulva, as we have seen it, mixed with a group of male Fern near a brook.

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  • O. japonicum, an elegant Japanese Fern, often grown in the greenhouse, is hardy in the outdoors fernery.

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  • This very handsome Fern, C. dealbata, known in New Zealand as the Silver Tree-fern, has a slender, almost black stem, 4 to 8 feet high, ending in a fine crown of fronds, dark green above and milk-white below.

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