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Steelsheen 
"Yeah Muggle scientific names, like for Stargrass its Heteranthera zosterifolia...." Pictures? "Oh yeah here...." the Curly Top shifted his book to the Gravity Tester turned Space Invader of which he definitely has NO complaints. "The thing is sometimes images from the book dont look quite the same as the actual plant, so I usually just go by the labels..... hopefully Healer Reed keeps a very accurate cataloging around here...." which he was fairly confident the man did.
It was now a case of reading labels-- labels that read like a kneazle was let loose on a keyboard-- so for Ace he was just walking around and finding a set of letters that were strung together similar to what was listed on the book. "Can you imagine trying to remember all these names instead of common names like Rose or Corn...." he snickered. Then again if he was gonna take Potions for a degree, as he mused about at times, this is whats waiting for him. Whoopeedoo. Maybe he should join up with that Latin Club.
And then he found something-- a string of letters starting with an H arranged and reads as Heteranthera zosterifolia. "There it is!" he beamed. It was almost like winning a lottery finally being able to stop reading labels that sounded gibberish. He handed Vi the textbook for visual confirmation of the image, meanwhile he busied himself setting up their weight scale and their collection bowls. "These bowls weigh 70g in and of itself, so if we need to have 32g worth of Stargrass, we should keep piling on the leaves until our scale reads.... 102g. Right?"
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Imagine if the Gryffindor Common Room passcode was this complicated... I would'nt be able to remember it," laughed Vi as she shook her head. She, too, began looking at the labels. No. Not this one. She had gotten to G......
There it is!
Vi turned around to face Ace at such an exclamation and received the textbook straight into her arms. Fortunately she had been ready for the textbook and did not drop it. Cradling said book in her arms, she glanced down at the image of the plant and glanced back to verify if it matched the one that Tenacius had pointed out.
In an instant, she did the calculation and turned back to confirm it with him. "
Yes, that would total to 102g." Measuring out that much would make sense. Now that they had the Stargrass, they needed the other one. The Betony Leaves. Now where would those be hiding? She noticed the other groups of students that had joined them in the inner garden and she saw the plant that they had headed to. Glancing at the textbook, she flipped through the pages until she found the plant with such a common name. And it looked a like! "
Found it," she beamed, passing the book back to Ace and then heading over to harvest the betony leaves. She brought her wand and carefully cut the plant where the leaves met the stems. She took ten leaves in total. An extra five would always come in handy if they messed up a potion or something.
With leaves in hand, she turned to Ace. "
Well we should be all set!" Time to rock and roll.