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Leaf metabolic and morphological responses of dwarf willow (Salix herbacea) in the sub-Arctic to the past 9000 years of global environmental change.
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Performance of '' Salix herbacea '' in an alpine snow-bed gradient.
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation 2009
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Petrosimonia birandii: This species grows in the muddy sandy soils close to the lake and may form associations with any of the following: Petrosimonia triandra, Salsola anatolica, Halocharis sulphurea, Salicornia herbacea, Kochia prostrata, Suaeda prostarta, Triplospermum praecox, Stipa hohenackeriana, S. lagascae, and Haplophyllum graveolens.
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In snow-patches the growing season is only four to six weeks long but matted cassiope Harrimanella hypnoides and dwarf willow Salix herbacea thrive.
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The saline wetlands support a halophytic vegetation of Salicornia herbacea and Arthrocnemum fruticosum, while less saline, better-drained areas give rise to meadows of Agropyron spp.,
Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests 2007
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Because of their alkaloid content and their curare like properties, the seeds, stems and bark of many species of Erythrina find uses as poisons for fish, while the powdered seeds of E. herbacea are used to control rats in Mexico.
Chapter 8 1994
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Decoctions of the leaves, bark and roots of many species, including E. corallodendron, E. herbacea and E. senegalensis, are used for medicinal purposes in the treatment of wounds and ailments such as jaundice, dysentery, bronchitis and venereal diseases, and to alleviate toothache.
Chapter 8 1994
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Faemin flos, infimus, unum tantum vidi sepala longiora herbacea, stam.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Among this occurred Lactuioides, Premna herbacea, Grewia, with here and there Pterygodium.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Wigand [456] alludes to an instance wherein there was a second pair of carpels above the first in _Vinca herbacea_.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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