Their lines were made of the tough, fibrous, silken bark of the variety of milkweed or silkweed, already mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [Indians of the Yosemite Valley and Vicinity Their History, Customs and Traditions] Reference
Walking in the lane, we came upon a large mixed flock, feeding on the thistles and silkweed of an adjoining field which is overrun with these weeds. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Hours] Reference
The patient should also drink freely of a strong tea of liverwort, and use bitters composed of one-third silkweed root and two-thirds butterfly root. From Wordnik.com. [The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.] Reference
The wild cucumber, a very troublesome plant, the great white convolvulus, the dodder, the field sorrel, the pokeweed, the silkweed, with one or two plantains and thistles, of the rarer kinds, are among the most important of those whose origin is clearly settled as belonging to this continent. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Hours] Reference
The silkweed goes a-gypsying. From Wordnik.com. [0 1601. Silkweed by Philip Henry Savage. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference
The silkweed, the skull-cap, catnip, boneset, the peppermint, wild ginger, wintergreen, and scores of other plants, all gladly offered their roots, their berries, or their leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Speech Flower or Little Luke and His Animal Friends] Reference
Berry, 312; plants producing, 79, 80, 92, 539; to clarify with vegetable albumen, 92; from sap of walnut, 318, 321; from beet, 375; from sap of trees, 318, 321, 396; from potato, 400; from silkweed, 488; to prepare and manufacture from corn, 553. 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
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