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   Stefan Ram  wrote:   
      
   > ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:   
   > >|It's a protective, like a skin, on birches, lindens, and oaks,   
   >   
   >   a protection   
      
   As distinct from a prophylactic, presumably.   
      
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