( "Yes," she said, luring me into her tale, "it did involve an asclepiad.").    From Wordnik.com.  [A Conversation with Rabih Alameddine, author of The Hakawati] Reference

Philip Sidney written every asclepiad on the model of Where man's mind hath a freed consideration, every hendecasyllable like Where sweet graces erect the stately banner, the adjustment of accent and quantity thus attained might, I think, have induced greater poets than he to make the experiment on a larger scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems and Fragments] Reference

What are the different forms of the asclepiad metre in Horace?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference

Its line, which reminded us of the Dámah, is well marked by unusually fine vegetation: and the basin bears large clumps of fan-palm, scattered Daum-trees, the giant asclepiad El-‘Ushr,222 thickets of tamarisk and scatters of the wild castor-plant, whose use is unknown to the Arabs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian] Reference