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clave is met at the church-door, and the fiery cross is put into
his hand, to bear to the clansmen of Roderick Dhu, the bridegroom
leaves his bride, and begins his way over mountain
and moor with the song;—•
‘‘The headi this night must be my bed,
The bracken curtain for my head,
My lullaby the warder’s tread,
Far, far, from love and thee, Mary.”
Plate X X X V .— Pteris aquilina. The frond chosen is a small one
from New England. At the left is part of a frond of var. caudata ; at the
right, the under side of a pinnule showing the fruit, a section of the
lower part of the stalk, and a section of the fertile pinnule, the latter
much enlarged.
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