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 ===== Hordeum murinum (wall barley) =====  ===== Hordeum murinum (wall barley) ===== 
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-   * Plantago major(Broad-Leaved Plantain)+ 
 +Wall barley is an annual grass common in central, southern and eastern England, and scattered elsewhere. It is found on waste and  
 +rough ground and barish patches in rough grassland. It occurs on the margins of cultivated fields.  
 +Distribution is related both to the availability of ruderal habitats and to climate. Frequency decreases with increasing rainfall combined with decreasing temperatures, although, it can cope with greater rainfall if temperatures are higher. In ruderal situations it extends further into cooler wetter regions by taking advantage of features such as the base walls where conditions are locally warmer and drier. 
 +Wall barley is part of a complex of overlapping subspecies whose centre of distribution is in the  
 +Mediterranean region. Subspecies murinum is the native grass in the UK. Sub-species leporinum and glaucum are introduced casuals. 
 +In Australia, biotypes of the latter two sub-species have been reported with resistance to the herbicide paraquat 
 +In New Zealand, wall barley is a particular problem to stock.  
 +The sharply pointed seeds can penetrate the eyes, mouth and skin of sheep causing animal losses and devaluing the pelts.  
 +The level of damage is influenced by the breed of sheep, mainly due to differences in the structure of the coat. 
 +Sheep dogs too are affected when the seeds become embedded between their toes. 
 + 
 +http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/organicweeds/weed_information/weed.php?id=125 
 + 
 +===== Plantago major(Broad-Leaved Plantain) ===== 
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 +It grows from a very short rhizome, which bears below a great number of long, straight, yellowish roots, and above, a large, radial rosette of leaves and a few Iong, slender, densely-flowered spikes.  
 +The leaves are ovate, blunt, abruptly contracted at the base into a long, broad, channelled footstalk (petiole).  
 +The blade is 4 to 10 inches long and about two-thirds as broad, usually smooth, thickish, five to eleven ribbed, the ribs having a strongly fibrous structure, the margin entire, or coarsely and unevenly toothed.  
 +The flower-spikes, erect, on long stalks, are as long as the leaves, 1/4 to 1/3 inch thick and usually blunt.  
 +The flowers are somewhat purplish-green, the calyx fourparted, the small corolla bell-shaped and four-lobed, the stamens four, with purple anthers.  
 +The fruit is a two-celled capsule, not enclosed in the perianth, and containing four to sixteen seeds. 
 +The Plantain belongs to the natural order Plantaginaceae, which contains more than 200 species, twenty-five or thirty of which have been reported as in domestic use. 
 +The drug is without odour: the leaves are saline, bitterish and acrid to the taste; the root is saline and sweetish. 
 +The glucoside Aucubin, first isolated in Aucuba japonica, has been reported as occurring in many species. 
 + 
 + 
 +Medicinal Action and Properties 
 + 
 +Refrigerant, diuretic, deobstruent and somewhat astringent. Has been used in inflammation of the skin, malignant ulcers, intermittent fever, etc., and as a vulnerary, and externally as a stimulant application to sores. 
 +Applied to a bleeding surface, the leaves are of some value in arresting haemorrhage, but they are useless in internal haemorrhage, although they were formerly used for bleeding of the lungs and stomach, consumption and dysentery.  
 +The fresh leaves are applied whole or bruised in the form of a poultice.  
 +Rubbed on parts of the body stung by insects, nettles, etc., or as an application to burns and scalds, the leaves will afford relief and will stay the bleeding of minor wounds. 
 + 
 +Fluid extract: dose, 1/2 to 1 drachm. 
 + 
 +In the Highlands the Plantain is still called 'Slan-lus,' or plant of healing, from a firm belief in its healing virtues.  
 +Pliny goes so far as to state, 'on high authority,' that if 'it be put into a pot where many pieces of flesh are boiling, it will sodden them together.'  
 +He also says that it will cure the madness of dogs.  
 +Erasmus, in his Colloquia, tells a story of a toad, who, being bitten by a spider, was straightway freed from any poisonous effects he may have dreaded by the prompt eating of a Plantain leaf. 
 + 
 +Another old Herbal says: 'If a woodhound (mad dog) rend a man, take this wort, rub it fine and lay it on; then will the spot soon be whole.  
 +' And in the United States the plant is called 'Snake Weed,' from a belief in its efficacy in cases of bites from venomous creatures;  
 +it is related that a dog was one day stung by a rattlesnake and a preparation of the juice of the Plantain and salt was applied as promptly as possible to the wound.  
 +The animal was in great agony, but quickly recovered and shook off all trace of its misadventure.  
 +Dr. Robinson (New Family Herbal) tells us that an Indian received a great reward from the Assembly of South Carolina for his discovery that the Plantain was 'the chief remedy for the cure of the rattlesnake.'  
 + 
 +Our Saxon ancestors esteemed it highly and in the old Lacnunga the Weybroed is mentioned as one of nine sacred herbs.  
 +In this most ancient source of Anglo-Saxon medicine, we find this 'salve for flying venom':'Take a handful of hammer wort and a handful of maythe (chamomile) and a handful of waybroad and roots of water dock,  
 +seek those which will float, and one eggshell full of clean honey, then take clean butter, let him who will help to work up the salve,  
 +melt it thrice: let one sing a mass over the worts, before they are put together and the salve is wrought up.  
 + 
 +http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/p/placom43.html 
    * Buddleja Davidii (Butterfly Bush)     * Buddleja Davidii (Butterfly Bush) 
 +
 ===== Pissenlit officinal or Taraxacum officinale(Dandelion) ===== ===== Pissenlit officinal or Taraxacum officinale(Dandelion) =====
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 --Ecology-- --Ecology--
 Today, liverworts can be found in many ecosystems across the planet except the sea and excessively dry environments, or those exposed to high levels of direct solar radiation. As with most groups of living plants, they are most common (both in numbers and species) in moist tropical areas.Liverworts are more commonly found in moderate to deep shade, though desert species may tolerate direct sunlight and periods of total desiccation. Today, liverworts can be found in many ecosystems across the planet except the sea and excessively dry environments, or those exposed to high levels of direct solar radiation. As with most groups of living plants, they are most common (both in numbers and species) in moist tropical areas.Liverworts are more commonly found in moderate to deep shade, though desert species may tolerate direct sunlight and periods of total desiccation.
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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchantiophyta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchantiophyta
-   * Geranium robertianum+ 
 +===== Geranium robertianum ===== 
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