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| CB 26, 425 |
She stopped at a stand of colorful hollyhocks on long graceful stems and gathered an armful of
different hues. Then she picked the many-petaled, daisylike yarrow used for poultices and pain.
She ran through the meadows and woods collecting more plants Iza had used in making her
healing magic: white-leafed thistle with round, pale yellow flowers and yellow spikes; large,
brilliant yellow groundsels; grape hyacinths, so blue they were almost black.
Every one of the plants she picked had found their way into Iza's pharmacopoeia at some time, but
she selected only those that were also beautiful, with colorful, sweet-smelling flowers. (...) and
saw the tangled branches of a woody horsetail with its small flowers (...) |
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Abbreviations |
Editions |
| CB |
The Clan of the Cave Bear |
The page numbers refer to the hardcover editions by Crown Publishers, Inc, New York 1980, 1982, 1985, 1990.
Book 1-3 are the Special Collector's Edition, I don't know if the page numbers differ from those of the 'normal' hardcover editions. |
| VH |
The Valley of Horses |
| MH |
The Mammoth Hunters |
| PP |
The Plains of Passage |
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| MGMH |
'A Modern Herbal', by Mrs. M. Grieve |
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