Poterium

It has been frequently recorded in _Poterium sanguisorba_, and in _Sanguisorba officinalis_, and is especially common in _Umbelliferæ_, _Dipsacaceæ_, and _Compositæ_; a familiar illustration in the latter order is afforded by the hen-and-chicken daisy.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

BURNET, known botanically as _Poterium_, a member of the rose family.

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Smaller than this Common Burnet is the Salad Burnet, _Poterium sanguisorba, quod sanguineos fluxus sistat_, a useful [431] styptic, which is also cordial, and promotes perspiration.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Therfield Heaths; _Alisma ranunculoides_ and _Potamogeton coloratus_ only on Ashwell Common; and of the great burnet (_Poterium officinale_) the sole record is that of a plant gathered near Ashwell in 1840. 2.

Hertfordshire Herbert Winckworth Tompkins 1901

In almost every order we find some plants which have become thus reduced or degraded for wind or self-fertilisation, as Poterium and Sanguisorba among the Rosaceae; while this has certainly been the case in the cleistogamic flowers.

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

_Poterium sanguisorba_ is anemophilous; and _Sanguisorba officinalis_ presumably was so formerly, but has reacquired an entomophilous habit; the whole tribe Poterieae being, in fact, a degraded group which has descended from Potentilleae.

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

Great burnet (_Poterium officinale_) is found in damp meadows; salad burnet (_P.

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"The genus Plantago, like _Thalictrum minus_, Poterium, and others, well illustrate the change from an entomophilous to the anemophilous state.

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

The Burnet (_Poterium sanguisorba_) is a native plant of no great beauty or horticultural interest, but it was valued as a good salad plant, the leaves tasting of Cucumber, and Lord Bacon (contemporary with

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

P; mpernel. a) Poterium sanguisorba; b) Sangui - sorba.

Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen Nemnich, Philipp Andreas, 1764-1822 1793