452 STURTEVANT S NOTES ON EDIBLE PLANTS 



P. fniticosa Linn, shrubby cinquefoil. 



North temperate regions. This plant is called in Siberia kouril-skoi-tchai or Kurile 

 tea. The leaves are used by peasants and Tartars as a tea.' 



P. rupestris Linn, prairie tea. rock cinquefoil. 



Europe and northern Asia. This plant is called by the Mongols khcdtalsa and is 

 used as a substitute for tea, as also in Siberia where it is called polvoi-tchai or prairie 

 tea.* 



P. tormentilla Neck, tormentil. 



Northern Asia and Europe. Johnson ' says by long boiling the tannin of the root 

 is converted into gum and the roots so treated have occasionally been eaten in times of 

 scarcity. 



Poterium sanguisorbaLinn. Rosaceae. burnet. 



North temperate regions. The young and tender leaves of burnet taste somewhat 

 like a green cucvimber and are employed in salads. It is rarely ctaltivated in the gardens 

 but occurs in all our books on gardening. Three varieties are described by Burr: the 

 Smooth-leaved, the Hairy-leaved and the Large-seeded. This latter he deems but a 

 seminal variation and a subvariety only. The following synonymy seems clear: 



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Pimpinella sanguisorha minor laevis. Bauh. Phytopin. 282. 1596. 

 Poterium sanguisorha, var. B. Linn. Sp. 141 1. 

 Smooth-leaved. Burr 319. 1863. 



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 Sanguisorha minor. Fuch. 790. 1542. 

 Pimpinella and Bipinelia. Ang. Burnet Advers. 320. 1570; Lob. Obs. 412. 1576; 



ic. 1:718. 1591. 

 Small or Garden Pimpernell. Lyte's Dod. 152. 1586. 

 Pimpinella minor. Lugd. 1087. 1587. 



Pimpinella sanguisorha minor hirsuta. Bauh. Phytopin. 2^2. 1596. 

 Pimpinella vulgaris sive minor. Ray 401. 1686. 

 Poterium sanguisorha. Linn. 5^. 141 1. 

 Hairy-leaved Burnet. Burr 319. 1863. 



The garden culture of burnet is implied in Lyte's Dodoens' Herhall,* 1586. Ray,' 

 however, a hundred years later, does not mention its culture. In 1693, Quintyne * grew 

 it in the royal vegetable garden in France, and, in 1726, Townsend ' says it is " a good 

 plant for Sallads." Mawe,' 1778, says it has long been cultivated as a salad plant; while 



' Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pis. 813. 1879. 

 ' Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pis. 793. 1879. 

 ' Johnson, C. P. Useful Pis. Gt. Brit. 93. 1862. 



* Dodoens /ferft. 152. 1586. Lyte Ed. 

 'Ray i7tj<. P/. 401. 1686. 



Quintyne Comp. Card. 1693. 



' Townsend Seedsman 33. 1726. 



Mawe and Abercrombie Univ. Card. Bot. 1778. 



