ill
thrive well when grown with Water-cress.

_Use._--The whole plant is used as a salad, in the same manner and for
the same purposes as Water-cress. It is considered an excellent
anti-scorbutic.

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BUCKSHORN PLANTAIN.

Star of the Earth. Plantago coronopus.

A hardy annual, indigenous to Great Britain, France, and other countries
of Europe. The root-leaves are put forth horizontally, and spread
regularly about a common centre somewhat in the form of a rosette; the
flower-stem is leafless, branching, and from eight to ten inches high;
flowers yellow; the seeds are quite small, of a clear, brown color, and
retain their power of germination three years,--nearly two hundred and
thirty thousand are contained in an ounce.

_Soil and Cultivation._--It succeeds best in a soil comparatively light;
and the seed should be sown in April. Sow thinly, broadcast, or in
shallow drills eight inches apart. When the plants are about an inch
high, thin them to three or four inches apart.

_Use._--The plant is cultivated for its leaves, which are used as a
salad. They should be plucked while still young and tender, or when
about half grown.

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BURNET. _Mill._

Poterium sanguisorba.

Burnet is a hardy, perennial plant, indigenous to England, where it is
found on dry, upland, chalky soils. When fully developed, it is from a
foot and a half to two feet in height. The leaves proceeding directly
from the root are produced on long stems, and are composed of from
eleven to fifteen smaller leaves, which are of an oval form, regularly
toothed, and generally, but not uniformly, smooth. The branches, which
are somewhat numerous, terminate in long, slender stems, each of which
produces an oval or roundish bunch of purplish-red, fertile and
infertile flowers. The fertile flowers produce two seeds each, which
ripen in August or September. These are oblong, four-sided, of a
yellowish color, and retain their vitality two years. Thirty-five
hundred are contained in an ounce.

_Sowing and Culture._--The plant is easily propagated by seeds, which
may be sown either in autumn or spring. Sow in drills ten inches apart,
half or three-fourths of an inch deep; and thin, while the plants are
young, to six or eight inches in the row. If the seeds are allowed to
scatter from the plants in autumn, young seedlings will come up
plentifully in the following spring, and may