Joint-fir

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Joint-fir \Joint"-fir`\, n. (Bot.)
     A genus ({Ephedra}) of leafless shrubs, with the stems
     conspicuously jointed; -- called also {shrubby horsetail}.
     There are about thirty species, of which two or three are
     found from Texas to California.
     [1913 Webster]