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berry, or if so she would have none in Paradise. If 

 a person suffering from a wound in the head eats a 

 strawberry the wound will prove fatal. 



Fragaria vesca. — In this figure (41) the habitat is 

 depicted, and the habit of the plant is well shown, as well 

 as the trifoliate character of the leaves, and the floral 

 structure, five petals and perigynous stamens, with the 

 superior ovary. 



Salad Burnet {Poterium Sanguisorba). 



One characteristic of this plant is suggested by 

 the English name Burnet, or rather it applies better 

 in the case of the Great Burnet, alluding to the brown 

 colour of the flowers, burnet being brunette. 



Salad Burnet is a familiar plant to all who live in a 

 limestone or chalk district. Occurring in all parts 

 of the British Isles, it is more frequent in England 

 than Scotland, where it is more abundant on the 

 east side. It is rare in Ireland. In the Channel 

 Islands it is native. It ascends to 1600 ft. in 

 Yorkshire. 



The habitat is dry pastures, clefts of limestone 

 rocks, chiefly on a dry and calcareous soil. It is 

 found on limestone scrub, limestone grassland, chalk 

 grassland, chalk pastures. 



The habit is more or less the rosette habit with 

 tufted, principally radical leaves, suited to a dry soil, 

 and adapted to xercphilous conditions. The plant 

 is hardly hairy at all. The rootstock is stout. The 



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