business environment. The combination of internal and external factors that influence a company's operating situation. The business environment can include factors such as: clients and suppliers; its competition and owners; improvements in technology; laws and government activities; and market, social and economic trends.
The springtails are soft-bodied, oval or roundish shaped, primitive insects. Their bodies are made up of six or fewer segments and they lack wings. Although many species have small eyes, some are nearly or totally blind. Their antennae are segmented.
Horsetail, or Scouring Rush, Equisetum arvense. Family: Equisetaceae, the Horsetail Family. Description: Native perennial herb 0.1-1m tall. Fertile stems leafless with strobili producing spores in April-May, sterile stems green, hollow, and grooved with whorled branches and leaves around each node. Abundance: Occasional on Mt. Desert Island