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WITCH BROOMS

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 755 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WITCH BROOMS , or " Birds' Nests," in See also:botany, See also:peculiar See also:broom-like growths often seen on the branches of many trees. They are a dense development of branching twigs formed at one See also:place on a See also:branch as the result of the irritation set up by the presence of a See also:mite or a fungus.

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