Silphium was employed in medicine, apparently for a variety of purposes. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ROMAN LASER.] Reference
Silphium, as the OED says, wasA plant of the Mediterranean region, yielding a gum-resin or juice much valued by the ancients as a condiment or medicine; the juice obtained from this plant, also called LASER1. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ROMAN LASER.] Reference
A Chaffy crown or down to fome feeds; as in Bidens, Silphium, Tagetes. From Wordnik.com. [The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...] Reference
Silphium, a famous medicinal plant of Lybia and of Persia, seems to have disappeared entirely. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference
Circea, Commelina, Aster, Solidago, Eupatorium, Helianthus and Silphium, together with a variety of other tribes and species now to me. From Wordnik.com. [Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians.] Reference
Arabian desert, in Syria, or on the Silphium meads of Cyrenaica, the wood-cutters of Lebanon and Pontus, the mountaineers of Hispania and. From Wordnik.com. [Serapis — Complete] Reference
Boe said cup plant, or Silphium perfoliatum, is a member of the sunflower family found in moist low ground in the eastern Great Plains, where it can grow more than 7 feet tall. From Wordnik.com. [ Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] Reference
The Silphium of Greek and Roman commerce appears to have come wholly from Cyrene, that from the Asiatic deserts being generally of less value, or, as Strabo says, perhaps of an inferior variety. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference
The herbaceous growth is chiefly wire grass, -- Aristida sticta, Mx. and A. purpurea, Mx. Plants of the composite or aster family abound in their seasons, the most common genera being Chrysopsis, Silphium, Aster, Peterocaulon, Helianthus and Liatris. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina and its Resources.] Reference
Silphium used to come from Cyrenaica; the Cyrenians protected their monopoly jealously —”. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
Compass plant (Silphium laciniatum). From Wordnik.com. [Water conservation] Reference
The erasure of Silphium from western Dane County is no cause for grief if one knows it only as a name in a botany book. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
Rosinweed (Silphium compositum). From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
Silphium (not mentioned). posted by. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
Silphium, a plant. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
Silphium 177 Spondilyon, 174. From Wordnik.com. [Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medica materia libri sex] Reference
Coreopfts, Silphium. From Wordnik.com. [The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...] Reference
Silphium was always the prerogative of the rich.”. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
Passed this day over expansive savannas, charmingly decorated with late autumnal flowers, as Helianthus, Rudbeckia, Silphium, Solidago, Helenium, Serratula, Cacalia, Aster, Lillium Martagon, Gentiana caerulia, Chironia, Gentiana saponaria, Asclepias coccinea, Hypericum, Rhexea pulcherima, &c. &c. From Wordnik.com. [Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians.] Reference
Crossing another large deep creek of St. Juan's, the country is a vast level plain, and the soil good for the distance of four or five miles, though light and sandy, producing a forest of stately Pines and laurels, with some others; and a vast profusion of herbage, such as Rudbeckia, Helianthus, Silphium, Polymnia, Ruellia, Verbena, Rhexea, Convolvus. From Wordnik.com. [Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians.] Reference
The peasants who tilled the earth by the Upper and Lower Nile, the shepherds who kept their flocks in the Arabian desert, in Syria, or on the Silphium meads of Cyrenaica, the wood-cutters of Lebanon and Pontus, the mountaineers of Hispania and Sardinia, the brokers, merchants, and skippers of every port on the Mediterranean, were bound by these threads to the villa on the shore of Mareotis, and felt the tie when the master there -- docile as a boy to his mother's will -- tightened or released his hold. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
AFTER crossing over this point or branch of the marshes, we entered a noble forest, the land level, and the soil fertile, being a loose, dark brown, coarse sandy loam, on a clay or marley foundation; the forests were Orange groves, overtoped by grand Magnolias, Palms, Live Oaks, Juglans cinerea, Morus rubra, Fagus sylvatica, Telia and Liquid-amber, with various kinds of shrubs and herbacious plants, particularly Callicarpa, Halesia, Sambucus, Zanthoxilon, Ptelea, Rhamnus frangula, Rudbeckia, Silphium, Polymnia, Indigo fera, Sophora, Salvia graviolens, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians.] Reference
Thomas Shearer of Duluth, MN, for his image of agatized petrified wood; Stephen Nagy of Helena, MT, for his photo of an extinct fossil diatom; Shirley Owens, formerly of Michigan State University, for her photo of the Cup Plant Silphium perfoliatum; David Walker of West Yorkshire, U.K., for his depiction of a snail radula; Neal Melvin of the University of Texas in Dallas for his image of an adult mouse hippocampus; Gerd Guenther of Duesseldorf, Germany, for his Trichodina pediculus; Charles Krebs of Issaquah, Washington, for his image of a jewel beetle, and Petr Znachor of the Institute of Hydrobiology in the Czech Republic, for his depiction of a colonial diatom. From Wordnik.com. [Photography Blog - News] Reference
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