Beware of breaking it, or the Seguines.

They will probably give off an evil smell, and as probably a blistering milk.

Look on at the next stem.

Up it, and down again, a climbing fern {133d} which is often seen in hothouses has tangled its finely-cut fronds.

Up the next, a quite different fern is crawling, by pressing tightly to the rough bark its creeping root-stalks, furred like a hare's leg.