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Qjure
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Qjurious
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3-663.47.14
Herniaria glabra
Names: Herniaria vulgaris, Herniaria arenaria, Herniaria fructicosa, Herniaria alpestris.
English: Glabrous Rupturewort; Smooth rupturewort; Herniary; Breastwort.
German: Tausendkorn; Kahles Bruchkraut.
Dutch: Breukkruid.
Botany: England, dry place; stem slender, herbaceous clothed with minute, decurved hairs; leaves opposite, oval to oblong; flowers minute, greenish, sessile in the axils; taste, insipid; odour, none.
Region: North America, Europe.
Content: herniarin, a methoxy analog of umbelliferone.
Source: Potter, Gerard.