Why the heartsease (polygonum persicaria) has red stripes

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Why the heartsease (polygonum persicaria) has red stripes.

Mythological motifs. · Origin of plant characteristics. · Origin of various plant characteristics. · Other plant characteristics. · view the constellation · filed as A2772.3

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The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

FlemishDeMeyer FFC XXXVII 90 No. 129a.

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