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Jo Bell - Hoary Alison
Edited by JODY PORTER

Hoary Alison
Berteroa incana

Precision has no gallantry. The texts call her
medium, hairy annual, grey with hairs,
untoothed, sometimes obscurely toothed.

She’s an extremely common weed; often found
on road and railways, docks. Our heroine
is casual of waste ground, docks, rubbish heaps, etc.

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