Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   {Salad burnet} (Bot.), the common burnet ({Poterium
      Sanguisorba}), sometimes eaten as a salad in Italy.

Source : WordNet®

Poterium sanguisorba
     n : European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves
         that are sometimes used for salads [syn: {salad burnet},
         {burnet bloodwort}, {pimpernel}]