No help for it: this would be a great day for collecting rare specimens of variegated shepherd's purse or green fumitory. From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
Helleboratus major and minor in Quercetan, and Syrupus Genistae for hypochondriacal melancholy in the same author, compound syrup of succory, of fumitory, polypody, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
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 flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881] Reference
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 and epithyme, hops, scolopendria, fumitory, maidenhair, bizantine, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
"Angelica" is stated in some tables to yield more potash even than wormwood or fumitory. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
The fumitory (Fumaria) is one of the plants richer in potash than the wormwood (Chenopodium). From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
Certainly few woodland dwellers have more delicately beautiful foliage than the fumitory tribe. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
The fumitory and wormwood (exceedingly rich in potash) are both grown in the Confederate States. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
Anglia to see if the doves fare better in areas planted with arable 'weeds' like vetch fumitory and clover. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Even the book's glossary of plant names is a verbal joy, full of sun spurge, fumitory, lady's mantle and spotted medick. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Some fumitory appeared this summer in a field of barley; till then I had not observed any for some time in that district. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
In this context, Mabey's weeds - spiny restharrow, pellitory-of-the-wall or Martin's ramping fumitory - are playing a typically ambivalent role. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Common weeds of cultivation are Fumaria parviflora, a near relation of the English fumitory, Silene conoidea, and two Spergulas (Caryophyllaceae), and Sisymbrium Irio. From Wordnik.com. [The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir] Reference
For two or three years past I had been trying to raise the climbing fumitory – Adlumia cirrhosa – from seed; and after many failures, last year one plant grew but did not flower. From Wordnik.com. [Gardening by Myself] Reference
One does not expect to pluck kindness from a frozen geranium, nor to have interest and sympathy spring up in the place of a slain fumitory; and yet in Fairyland such things will happen. From Wordnik.com. [Gardening by Myself] Reference
She had washed herself that day in a woodland stream which they had crossed on the road, and had arrayed her garments as trimly as she might, and had plucked some fumitory, wherewith she had made a garland for her head. From Wordnik.com. [The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale] Reference
Get water of fumitory, liver to cool. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
The darnel, hemlock and rank fumitory. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of King Henry V] Reference
Foam-tuft fumitory. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published] Reference
Tlachtmhach, fumitory. From Wordnik.com. [Focalóir gaoidhilge-sax-bhéarla, or An Irish-English dictionary. Whereof the Irish part hath been compiled not only from various Irish vocabularies, particularly that of Mr. Edward Lhuyd; but also from a great variety of the best Irish manuscripts now extant ..] Reference
Conserves of borage, bugloss, roses, fumitory. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
More gentle; as senna, epithyme, polypody, mirobalanes, fumitory, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
To correct and cleanse the blood with fumitory, senna, succory, dandelion, endive, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Carlin: Black sage, ivy-twined rowan, thistle, snapdragon, heather, gorse, fumitory, and anise. From Wordnik.com. [Thor's Day] Reference
Consisting, are conserves or confections; conserves of borage, bugloss, balm, fumitory, succory, maidenhair, violets, roses, wormwood, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Cidoniorum de pomis, conserves of roses, violets, fumitory, enula campana, satyrion, lemons, orange-pills, condite, &c., have their good use. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Forsythia suspensa; viridissima, frames, fraxinus species, freesia, fringe tree, fritillary, fruit-buds, fruits, culture of, fuchsia, fumigating, fumitory, fungi and insects, fungicides, funkia, gaillardia, perennial, gardenia. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
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