BURNET, GREATER BURNET SAXIFRAGE. 45 



The leaves are large, rhubarb-like in shape, whitish 

 beneath. Flowerheads globular, with hooked scale- 

 like bracts. 



BURNET, GREATER. 



Sanguisorba officiaalis, Linn. 



N.O. Rosacea. 

 Syn. Garden Burnet. 



Part used Herb. 



Action Astringent, tonic. Useful in haemorrhages. 



Distinctive character Leaves pinnate, with about 

 13 opposite leaflets, rounded at the ends and sharply 

 serrate, the teeth with slender thickened margins. 

 Flowerheads purplish, oblong. Flowers with four- 

 toothed membranous calyx. Taste, astringent. Odour, 

 none. 



BURNET SAXIFRAGE. 



Pimpinella Saxifraga, Linn. 

 N.O. UmbcUiferff. 

 Syn, Lesser Burnet, Salad Burnet. 



Parts used Root, herb. 



Action Aromatic, carminative, stomachic. 



Distinctive character Root spindle-shaped, brown- 

 ish, about 8 inches long, often crowned with several 

 hollow stem bases, ringed above, and longitudinally 

 wrinkled and tuberculated below. Fracture short and 

 whitish. Bark thick,with resinous dots in radiating lines, 

 central woody cylinder porous and radiate. Leaves 

 pinnate, with oval serrate leaflets, nearly smooth or 

 slightly hairy below. Flowers in globular heads with 

 hard quadrangular calyx tube with netted veins. Taste, 

 cucumber-like. Odour, none. 



