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	Drying and Preserving Plant Materials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Preserving plant materials in a dried form is not a new idea; it has been considered an art for hundreds of years.
		Plant materials available commercially, as well as those which can be preserved by homeowners using today's methods, are almost unbelievably fresh-looking and represent a wide range of colors.
		Approximately twice the volume of plant parts needed should be collected to compensate for the inevitable loss that occurs both in the drying process and the subsequent makeup of a design.
	edis.ifas.ufl.edu /BODY_EP004 (3283 words)

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		Unicorn means literally, “one - horned”, and it was a one horned animal.
		There are also the unicorn bird, the unicorn fish, the unicorn moth, the unicorn shell, plant, root and the unicorn constellation.
		The KJB is not in error by translating this word as unicorn, but the modern versions are just taking a wild guess with their “wild oxen” and the other scriptures show their wild guess to be wrong.
	www.geocities.com /brandplucked/unicorn.html (1625 words)

	unicorn plant -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The unicorn plant is often grown for its novel fruits, which are hanging, hornlike, woody pods with a thick body, 3 or 4 inches (76 or 101 mm) long, …
		The unicorn appeared in early Mesopotamian artworks, and it also was referred to in the ancient myths of India and China.
		The purple berries of the pokeweed and the red berries of the European bittersweet, or nightshade, are common offenders.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9074251 (941 words)

	The Unicorn's Sanctuary
		The Unicorn's Sanctuary is a small glade venerated by local druids and rangers of Mielikki, as well as others of her faith.
		While he had not seen the creature, he disliked the thought of ruffians stumbling across the unicorn's path; an opportunity to capture a prize, such as a unicorn's horn, would not be missed by these hunters.
		In moonlight, the plant almost seems to shine with an inner radiance; during the day the plant is, strangely enough, very ordinary in appearance.
	www.nettally.com /fincher1/arylon/unicorns_sanctuary.htm (1306 words)

	Legends
		The Chinese Unicorn is known as Kilin (pronounced chee-lin), which is a combination of both Ki, the male Unicorn, and Lin, the female Unicorn.
		Pliny's Unicorn is a ferocious beast with the body of a horse, the head of a deer, the feet of an elephant, the tail of a wild boar, and a single fl horn two cubits long, standing out of its forehead.
		During the middle ages a fable was told that although the Unicorn was impossible to hunt down, it was so impressed by the presence of a lovely virgin that it would run up to her and submissively lay its head in her lap.
	www.unicorncollector.com /legends.htm (3081 words)

	Martynia -- Proboscidea louisianica (Mill.) Thell.
		Martynia, popularly called "unicorn plant," is grown for its seed pods which are picked while young and tender and used for pickles, like cucumbers.
		The plant is an annual, up to 2-3 feet in height, with large, 4 to 12 inch wide, round, slightly pointed leaves.
		Due to the unusual shape of the pods, and the pretty, orchid-like, lavender flowers, the plants are grown as ornamentals and for floral arrangements, as well as for pickling.
	edis.ifas.ufl.edu /BODY_MV091 (530 words)

	Ultrasonic test equipment for steel tubes and gas cylinders
		Unicorn’s C-MAX electronics fulfils this objective by using state of the art integrated circuit technology to analyse defect profiles.
		Unicorn manufacture and supply the widest range of rotary probe systems in the world for ultrasonic pipe inspection / testing, covering tube diameter ranges from 6mm to 700mm.
		Unicorn’s objective is to provide both the production and quality assurance managers of steel tube or gas cylinder plants with a turnkey system capable of meeting both of their needs.
	www.unicorn-automation.co.uk (503 words)

	Companion Plants - Catalogue
		Toxic in large doses, the root of this plant has a long history of use in treating rheumatism, arthritis, tumors, respiratory tract ailments and as a pain reliever.
		The seeds are the part of the plant used, and have a mild, licorice-like flavor.
		The root of this plant has been used to treat hepatitis, syphilis, venereal warts and some forms of cancer, but is quite toxic.
	home.frognet.net /~complants/secure/cart/ph-pz.htm (1244 words)

	Processsing plant of Unicorn Pickles Gherkins
		The plant enjoys a smooth operation throughout the process thanks to a spacious, congestion free work area.
		Unicorn Pickles plant uses completely covered lights which does not leave any room for the flies to accumulate.
		Pestocuters are installed in the plant which entices, electrocutes and collects these flies that manage to get inside the plant.
	www.unicornagro.com /plant.htm (192 words)

	Devil’s Claw- DesertUSA
		Most commonly known as "devil’s claw," this desert hitchhiker is also called "elephant tusks" or "unicorn plant." Each name refers to the plant’s seed pod.
		Plants hug the ground and emerge from a tuberous root.
		When legendary desert botanist Forrest Shreve saw this article and the accompanying photos he quickly realized that Dunn had in fact described "a bunch of fruits of the unicorn plant [while] the reckless disregard of truth displayed by the author excites admiration." This appeared in the September 1908 issue of Plant World.
	www.desertusa.com /mag01/jun/papr/d_claw.html (791 words)

	Annuals for Every Garden: Long-Lasting Flowers
		From summer to early fall, winged, slightly leafy stems bear panicles of clustered spikelets that consist of tiny funnel-shaped flowers 3/8- to ½-inch long enclosed in a hairy calyx of white or pale violet.
		Plants in the 'Petite Bouquet' Series are dwarf, with tightly bunched spikelets in blue, purple, deep salmon-pink, pure white, creamy white, lemon-yellow, and golden yellow.
		Cultivated for its remarkable seedpods, which are about 6 inches long and reminiscent of milkweed pods except that they have two long, curling horns, unicorn plant is native to the southern United States southward to Mexico.
	www.bbg.org /gar2/topics/plants/handbooks/annuals/3.html (1631 words)

	White Colicroot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Whitetube stargrass, ague grass, ague horn, agueroot, aletris root, aloe, aloeroot, backache root, blazing star, colicroot, crow corn, devil’s bit, false unicorn root, huskwood, huskwort, mealy starwort, rheumatism root, stargrass, starwort, true unicorn root, unicorn’s horns, unicorn plant, unicorn root, white colicroot.
		The rhizomes and roots are reported to have therapeutic use as a diuretic tonic and sedative.
		The plant is known as colicroot because it has been used to treat colic, and ague root because of its value in treating rheumatism, often called ague in Colonial times.
	scienceviews.com /plants/whitecolicroot.html (152 words)

	Harding's Ginseng and other medicinal plants, 1936: Aletris. Aletris farinosa L. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In order to guard against this confusion as much as possible, it is best not to use the common names of this plant at all, referring to it only by its generic name, Aletris.
		The plants do not resemble each other except in habit of growth, and the trouble undoubtedly arose from a confusion of the somewhat similar common names of the plants, as, for instance, "stargrass" and "starwort."
		Aletris may be at once distinguished by the grasslike leaves, which spread out on the ground in the form of a star, and by the slender spikes of rough, mealy flowers.
	www.ibiblio.org /herbmed/eclectic/harding/aletris.html (626 words)

	Unicorn Plant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Unicorn Plant is also known as Devil’s Claw and Martynia.
		Until recently the plant was known in the Unicorn Plant family; however, recent scientific studies have placed it in the family Pediliaceae (Sesame).
		Plant is an upright annual herb; branching from near the base; rarely more than three feet tall.
	wildflowers.jdcc.edu /Unicorn%20Plant.html (213 words)

	Juncus effusus 'Unicorn' origin - UBC Botanical Garden Forums
		Juncus effusus 'Unicorn' was a selection from the UBC NATIVE Garden.
		It was originally planted by Al Rose who did considerable collecting around the province.
		Unicorn is of particular value in floral art.
	www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org /forums/showthread.php?t=2392 (429 words)

	PlantFiles: Detailed information on Devil's Claw, Unicorn Plant, Ram's Horn (Proboscidea louisianica)
		Proboscidea louisianica is a spreading plant grown for its unusual seedpods.
		This plant does reseed in my zone 8b garden if left to it's own devices, but the seedlings are easily identifiable (leaves are succulent-like, fuzzy and dark purple underneath) and very easy to pull.
		Its' a handsome plant and my wife wanted to know, "What is it?" So, I looked it up in Jepson's manual of CA plants still hanging around from my student days at Humboldt State College.
	plantsdatabase.com /go/333 (1010 words)

	CPC Plant Profile - National Collection of Endangered Plants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Plants are about 0.4 m across and high, with rounded dark green leaves that are very glandular and somewhat pungent.
		Kartesz, J.T. Species distribution data at state and province level for vascular plant taxa of the United States, Canada, and Greenland (accepted records), from unpublished data files at the North Carolina Botanical Garden.
		Van Eseltine, G.A. A preliminary study of the unicorn plants.
	www.centerforplantconservation.org /ASP/CPC_ViewProfile.asp?CPCNum=3640 (477 words)

	Martynia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		1971 This is an annual plant, up to 2 to 3 feet in height, with entire leaves, round to cordate, 4 to 12 inches wide.
		The fruit is hairy, about 1 inch thick and 4 to 6 inches long at maturity, about half the length consisting of a slender curved beak.
		The plant is grown as an ornamental, and sparingly as a pickling vegetable.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/Crops/Martynia.html (83 words)

	Gherkins and pickled cucumbers from Unicorn Pickles Ltd. Bangalore, India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Unicorn Pickles is a trusted name for yummy, high quality gherkins exported to USA, Canada, Chile, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Sweden, Greece, Thailand, S.Africa, Australia and Japan.
		During the different stages of the growth of the plant, pesticides and fertilizers are provided to the farmers as per the requirement of the plant and soil.
		The gherkins are graded on the basis of count/kilo and are thoroughly washed.
	www.unicornagro.com /gherkins.htm (302 words)

	Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science
		The entire plant is covered with glandular hairs or trichomes, each tipped by a droplet of oil which makes the plant odoriferous and oily to sight and touch (1).
		In the devil's-claw experiments, similar steam distillation from acidified plant material yielded 73% as much as from the stems and leaves, 27% as from the pods, and 147% as from the roots, which was considerably less than found in N.
		It is not known whether the response of the cotton leaf is due to volatile substances from devil's-claw blown through the air into the cotton plant or due to actual contact by the cotton leaf with the devil's claw glandular hairs.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /OAS/oas_htm_files/v71/p35_42nf.html (2499 words)

	Pedaliaceae (sesmae family)
		While seeds of the wild type must lie in the ground for a couple of years before they will germinate, the white seeds sprout as soon as they get wet in hot weather and are thus easier to cultivate.
		This is one of the few plants domesticated north of Mexico, and this seems to have been accomplished only late in the last century.
		Cattle will eat devil’s claw plants, and O’odham women may have been forced to save seeds and grow them in more protected areas than previously.
	www.desertmuseum.org /books/nhsd_pedaliaceae.html (789 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Gargolyle Vine, A Space Plant Transcript by James Baker caution_r@hotmail.com JS = Johnny Sokko.
		Unicorn agent U7, this kid can control Giant Robot via his wristwatch.
		I came to replace the plants Man Thanks Sp let's go Man just a minute where's the regular man i don't know you SP oh he has the flu yes SP And why should I work so hard.
	www.stormpages.com /caution/js3.txt (1080 words)

	Incredible Edibles, a native plant class
		Many of these plants cause severe allergic reactions, convulsions and death.
		Two books are a must if you wish to include some of these plants in classes South Fuller, Thomas C., and Elizabeth McClintock, 1986.
		University of California Pres South Los Angeles AND Wild Edible Plants, Kirk, 1975, Nature graph(there is a newer version out).
	www.laspilitas.com /classes/edible.htm (892 words)

	Unicorn Plant Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Since its discovery around turn of the century it has gone through several cycles of cultivation in other parts of the country to adapt it to a domestic environment.
		Progress has been slow, but as a wilderness plant it is making headway in fields, swamps, on stream banks and occasionally at roadside.
		Plants are considered to be upright but since it's extremely top-heavy there is a tendency to bend toward the ground; those branches touching soil supporting the weight of the entire plant.
	wildflowers.jdcc.edu /Martyniaceae.html (273 words)

	Search Results for unicorn - Encyclopædia Britannica
		The unicorn appeared in early Mesopotamian artworks, and it also was referred to in the ancient myths of India and...
		There are nine species of unicorn plants, most having large...
		The unicorn beetle is closely related to the rhinoceros and...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=unicorn&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (458 words)

	Texas - Davis Mountains Preserve
		Animals and plants living above 5,000 feet are isolated from other similar mountain ranges by vast distances.
		Plant life is diverse and presents interesting contrasts.
		Eleven rare species of plant are known, including the Livermore sandwort, many-flowered unicorn plant and fringed paintbrush.
	nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/states/texas/preserves/art6647.html (687 words)

	True Unicorn
		True Unicorn root is considered useful for poor digestion, nervous stomach, loss of appetite, and gas.
		The True Unicorn plant is found throughout eastern North America, and Native Americans have long used it to relieve digestive problems and prevent threatened miscarriage.
		The leaves of this plant have a whitish look to them, as if dusted with flour.
	www.pdrhealth.com /drug_info/nmdrugprofiles/herbaldrugs/102790.shtml (203 words)

	Proboscidea sabulosa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It is an annual plant that may become locally abundant within its habitats during unusually wet summers.
		The clasping dry fruits easily attach to the feet of large ungulates for dispersal to new habitats.
		Conservation Considerations: Soil disturbing land uses are not a threat to this rare plant.
	nmrareplants.unm.edu /reports/prosab.htm (206 words)

	Leaf Hairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Below are scanning electron micrographs of the epidermis of the plants you examined in botany laboratory.
		The type of hair(s) found on each plant is given.
		Recall what the functions are of the various types of hairs and how these functions benefit the plant.
	www.fhsu.edu /biology/thomasson/leafhair.htm (61 words)

	Summer Broadleaf Plant Key (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		>>>>Plant lacks spines - common waterhemp or Palmer amaranth
		>>Plant perennial from underground tubers, petioles are winged - Jerusalem artichoke
		>>Plant perennial from tuberous root - bigroot morningglory
	www.psu.missouri.edu /fishel/summer_broadleaf_plant_key.htm (410 words)

	answer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		What: The strange looking object is the seed pod of a plant.
		The plant is known as devil's claw or unicorn plant.
		The baskets seen at the left were made by a Kaibab Paiute tribe member.
	www.nps.gov /pisp/kids/answers/objectr.htm (125 words)

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