Next to smell came taste, and the children knew the taste of everything they saw or touched, from penny-royal and flagroot to the shell of a pignut and the letters of a spelling-book: —the taste of A-B, AB, suddenly revived on the boy’s tongue sixty years afterwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quincy (1838–1848)] Reference

Horsechestnuts, flagroot, and the kite's wound twine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference

Then she tried a little flagroot and snakeroot, then some spruce gum, and some caraway and some dill, some rue and rosemary, some sweet marjoram and sour, some oppermint and sappermint, a little spearmint and peppermint, some wild thyme, and some of the other tame time, some tansy and basil, and catnip and valerian, and sassafras, ginger, and pennyroyal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Peterkin Papers] Reference