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A Modern Herbal | Broom, Butcher's Click on graphic for larger image Botanical: Ruscus aculeatus (LINN.) Kneeholy. Knee Holly. Kneeholm. Jew's Myrtle. Sweet Broom. Pettigree. Butcher's Broom, a low, shrubby, evergreen plant, which occurs not infrequently in woods and waste and bushy places, especially in the south of England, is sometimes called Knee Holly, though it is in no way allied to the true Holly, being a member of the Lily tribe. It is, however, entirely different in appearance to the bulbous plants we regard as the characteristic representatives of this group, it being, in fact, the only Liliaceous shrub known in this country, and the only representative of its genus among our flora, the other species of the genus,
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