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moze THE STORY. OF PLANT Lig 
is as white as a sheet, “‘sow your barley whether it 
be dry or not.” 
The fruit is astringent. A conserve or jam is made 
from it as well as Sloe gin and port wine. Marking 
ink used to be made from it. 
MEADOW SWEET (Sfivea Ulmamia). 
Forming wide patches, especially in low-lying 
ground, Meadow Sweet is an unfailing indication of 
the near proximity of a stream, river, or ditch, 
luxuriating in the silt brought down by either of 
these. 
Lovely flower as it is there is little wonder that it 
has received the name of Queen of the Meadows. It 
is found in every British county as far north as the 
Shetlands, and grows at a height of 1200 ft. in 
Yorkshire. 
It may be found in wet meadows, by the sides of 
ditches, streams, ponds, and rivers. It also grows 
commonly in marshes, where it thrives to the exclu- 
sion of other less vigorous plants, being a moisture- 
loving plant. With it grow Meadow Crane’s Bill, 
Willow herbs, Figwort, Marsh Bedstraw, Docks, 
Sedges, Rushes and other water plants that grow on 
the margins of aquatic habitats. 
Meadow Sweet is a tall, erect plant, with a rigid 
angular stem, seldom branched, more than one stem | 
arising from one root. | 
The root-leaves are pinnate, ovate, the terminal 
leaflet larger and divided, dark-green above, downy 
