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n. - A European herb that thrives in wet places.

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  • Was it the damp that brought the perfumes of the moorland so distinctly toward them -- the bog-myrtle, the water-mint and wild thyme?
  • The plants and grasses he trod were the asphodels, sundew, water-mint his feet had crushed -- crushed into fragrance -- five-and-twenty years ago ....
  • Thenceforward it ran by beds of sundew, water-mint and asphodel, under woods so steeply converging that the traveller upon the ridges heard it as the trickle of water in...
  • Further seawards, or rather riverwards, at a place called "Sluis," they are fringed with wild rose and wild plum, and the ditches are deep in rushes, in willow herb, in purple...
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