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Title: Wild flowers as they grow, photographed in colour direct from nature
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Nuttall, Gertrude Clarke Corke, H. Essenhigh
Subjects: Wild flowers
Publisher: London, New York, Cassell
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ve been found for it.It is Robin, or Robin i th Hedge, or, more fondly.Little Red Robin; sometimes it is felt to be thecomplement of the robin, and so it becomes JennyWren, or Wren Flower; sometimes, again, it ishonoured by the name of that evergreen country-side hero, Robin Hood, at other times it is Redbreastor, most aptly. Red Shanks, because of its long redstalks. When its hue is most striking and the leavesand stalks are ahke dyed with crimson stain itbecomes Dragons Blood, or Bloodwort, or evenmore suggestively. Death-come-quickly. How itbecame Herb Robert can now be only a matter oftradition, so far back do we find the name. Prosaicfolk assert that Robert is a corruption of Rob-wort,the red plant; but one would rather receive the oldbelief that it keeps alive for us to-day the memoryof that Abbot of Molesne, the founder of the greatCistercian Order, St. Robert, whose dedicated dayis April 24th. The story goes that he performedmiracles of heaUng by means of this plant. Others 44
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HERB ROBERT The Herb Robert again assert that it was not to St. Robert, but toRobert Duke of Normandy, for whom a wonderfulmedical work was prepared, the Hortus Saniiatis,that the plant stands as memorial. The plant may be a foot or rather more in heightwith stems that are much branched, thin, and ratherweak, but thickened for strength where the branch-ing occurs. They carry a few soft hairs, the upperones being glandular. The foliage is a great feature,the leaves are charmingly fashioned into three maindivisions, and these again have their margins gashedso that the whole appearance is one of lightnessand grace. Always beautiful, as our picture takenin May days shows, their charm is doubled whenthe green of early spring passes into the warmer reds of later days. Down in the grassAnd blushing through green blades, Herb Robert fainWould catch the eye of pilgrims as they pass,Who seek for rarer plants. Because of its glow of colour the plant had a great reputation as an astringent; scarc

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