The stump was there, a bit lower and more worn at the crevices, leaking sawdust like an overloved doll -- but the low shrub had become a tall sapling, the weeds -- vervain, boneset, velvet-leaf -- all had been topped and killed off by dense-foliaged bushes and shrubs, which a year before had not raised a leaf above the meadow level.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edge of the Jungle] Reference

ABUTILON, or velvet-leaf.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference

Butter-and-eggs, tansy, chamomile, spiked loosestrife, velvet-leaf, bladder-campion, cypress spurge, live-for-ever, star of Bethlehem, money-vine, -- all have seen better days, but now are flower-tramps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference