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Botany cannot go farther than tell me the names of the shrubs which grow there,—the high-blueberry, panicled andromeda, lambkill, azalea, and rhodora,—all standing in the quaking sphagnum.—Henry David Thoreau, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
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