SALAD BUKNET. 



Poterium saiiguisorba. Nat. Ortf., 

 Rosacea. 



LANTS, there is no doubt, in 

 not a few cases may be very 

 common and yet scarcely come 

 within the literal scope of our 

 title and be called familiar ; 

 and the present species, the 

 salad burnet, may be taken as 

 a very good illustration of that 

 fact, for it is abundantly distri- 

 buted throughout the country, 

 and yet we venture to say that 

 to ninety-nine pairs of eyes out 

 of a hundred that light here 

 upon its counterfeit present- 

 ment, it will be a stranger. 

 The reason of this is not far 

 to seek; the small size of its 

 flower-heads and their absence 

 of strong colour are sufficient to render the plant invisible 

 amongst the grass to those who only cast a casual glance 

 at the herbage at their feet, while it does not occur in such 

 masses, nor on spots so bare of other vegetation as the equally 

 inconspicuous moschatell, and other such-like plants do, 

 thus more or less compelling us to give it our observation. 



