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n. - Delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers.

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  • No help for it: this would be a great day for collecting rare specimens of variegated shepherd's purse or green fumitory.
  • Helleboratus major and minor in Quercetan, and Syrupus Genistae for hypochondriacal melancholy in the same author, compound syrup of succory, of fumitory, polypody, &c.
  • The climbing fumitory comes up of itself from seed every year, and is now running over bushes, stakes, and strings, and is full of fern-like leaves and flesh-colored...
  • As syrup of borage (there is a famous syrup of borage highly commended by Laurentius to this purpose in his tract of melancholy), de pomis of king Sabor, now obsolete, of thyme...
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