The Meat Tree (18 page)

pp 152-53
ibid
, p 58.

pp 179-80, 201-2 The information about perfumes
comes from Nigel Groom,
The Perfume Handbook
(London, 1992). I'm grateful to Richard Mabey for drawing my attention to it.

pp 199-200 Some of the language to describe Blodeuwedd at night is taken from Charles Darwin,
The Power of Movement in Plants
(New York, 1966),
p 106.

pp 207-8
Some of the language used to describe the love­
making of Blodeuwedd and the hunter is drawn
from Maurice Maeterlinck,
The Intelligence of Flowers
,
tr Philip Mosley (State of New York Press, 2005),
p 22.

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