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Round About a Great Estate

CHAPTER V
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The labiate purplish flowers are all at the top; each flower is set in the cup by a curve at the lesser end, like a crook; the leaves and stalk are slightly rough, and have an aromatic bitter perfume when crushed.

On the flower of a great thistle a moth has alighted, and hidden under its broad wing is a humble-bee, the two happy together and neither interfering with the other.

Sometimes a bee will visit the white rose on the briar.
Near the gateway, on the edge of the trodden ground, grows a tall, stout, bushy plant, like a shrub, with pale greyish-green leaves, much lobed and divided: the top of each branch in August is thick with small whitish-green flowers tipped with brown.

These, if rubbed in the hand, emit a strong and peculiar scent, with a faint flavour of lavender, and yet quite different.

This is the mugwort.


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