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Moquin [526] mentions having seen the leaves of _Chenopodium vulvaria_, and of _Diplotaxis muralis_ reduced to a fourth of their natural size; and he alludes to other cases of the same nature, seen by other observers, in _Hypericum perforatum_ and _Blitum polymorphum_.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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A rare garden weed, the stinking goosefoot, _Chenopodium vulvaria_, it is well known, possesses a herring brine or putrid fish odor -- due, it appears, to propylamin, which is also found in the flowers of the common white thorn or mayflower (_Cratægus oxyacantha_) and many others of the
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899
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