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n. - Perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves.

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  • Other typical wetland plants include various sedges, like bottle sedge Carex rostrata, white sedge C. canescens, common bog-sedge C. limosa, tall bog-sedge C. magellanica,...
  • Through the throng of bearded sailors we strode and made our way to the kitchen of the Quay Inn. A place sacred to kenspeckle folk it was, and from its smoke-stained rafters...
  • Volunteers are being asked to look out for 99 species in an assigned grid square, including rare plants like bogbean, cowslip and cornflowers.
  • Cunning old leech-wives treated the French lady with tonics, mugwort, and bogbean, and good wine enow, But, like David of old, she got no heat; and before
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