Keep the patient for one week freely dosed with figwort. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
The figwort family has many and curious representatives. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier'] Reference
Many2s the time I remember gathering figwort and purple medic with my Aunt Megaera, she who always told me, 1Agion, purple medic follows the dove, figwort the pigeon2 .. .4. From Wordnik.com. [Virginity] Reference
Stir-fry with caramelized onions and figwort sprouts. From Wordnik.com. [IGN Complete] Reference
In the ditches the square-stemmed figwort is conspicuous by its dark green. From Wordnik.com. [The Toilers of the Field] Reference
In the figwort, for example, we have seen the fifth stamen reduced, from long sterility, to. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
She shrank from the little jungle of rank plants before her, evil-smelling figwort and hemlock. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
Fanning the air with gauzy wings, the honey bee comes for a feast on the flowers of the figwort. From Wordnik.com. [Some Summer Days in Iowa] Reference
They appear to have quite forsaken the ancient herbal remedies, as the sickle-herb, knotted figwort, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Fields] Reference
"A legume" is a member of the Leguminosae, while a specimen from the Scrophulariaceae would be termed "a figwort.". From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3] Reference
At the foot of a figwort stalk in the pasture, shielded by a little sprig of choke-cherry and a wisp of grasses, a new nest is being builded. From Wordnik.com. [Some Summer Days in Iowa] Reference
Country children, and indeed older folk, call the foliage of the knotted figwort cutfinger leaves, as they are believed to assist the cure of a cut or sore. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
We know by the colour of her burden under what friendly roof the bee asked alms this morning – whether she begged in the brown hut of the figwort or the rosy pavilion of the willow herb. From Wordnik.com. [The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing] Reference
The leaves of the square-stemmed figwort, which they called 'cresset' or 'cressil,' were occasionally placed on a sore; and the yarrow -- locally 'yarra' -- was yet held in estimation as a salve or ointment. From Wordnik.com. [Round About a Great Estate] Reference
The water runs with the deep sparkle of cut glass; forget-me-nots grow about it, and reed mace, and figwort and bittersweet; waterhens wander in the shaven grass of its brim, and dabchicks go plump in the current like cricket-balls. From Wordnik.com. [Highways and Byways in Surrey] Reference
Borage, whose leaves float in the claret-cup ladled out to thirsty travellers at the London railway stations in the hot weather; knotted figwort, common in ditches; Aaron's rod, found in old gardens; lovely veronicas; mints and calamints whose leaves, if touched, scent the fingers, and which grow everywhere by cornfield and hedgerow. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
In old times the Water figwort was famous as. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
(the sweet and the scentless), figwort, veronica, ground ivy, willowherb. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
The student will look for and compare the following: Iris, figwort, wild yam, catalpa, trumpet-creeper, centauria, mulleins, foxglove, beardtongue, and many other fruits. From Wordnik.com. [Seed Dispersal] Reference
Say rather a goblin's with the gout! but, such as the flower-cobbler has made it, here is one of the kind that people praise, out of the greenhouse, -- and yet a figwort we must have, too; which I see on referring to Loudon, may be balm-leaved, hemp-leaved, tansy-leaved, nettle-leaved, wing-leaved, heart-leaved, ear-leaved, spear-leaved, or lyre-leaved. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
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