Burnet
the English name net. The common or garden salad buralso called salad burnet and lesser burnet (poterium sanguisorba) is a herbacepinnate leaves and dull purplish flowers. The leaves taste and smell like cucumous plant one or two feet high, with ber, and are eaten in salad. The muriber, and are eaten in salad. The muricatum), has larger fruit than the former, to which it is closely allied. It The great burnet is sanguisorba offici- is not common. There are other species. nalis.
Anglo-American novelist, born in Manchester, England, Nov. 24, 1849. Her She early wrote stories. In 1873 Miss family removed to Tennessee in 1865. 1875, settled in Washington, where she has since resided. After various short