A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn.
A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or colcothar) thus produced from salts of iron, and used as a polishing powder.
A genus of herbs (Chenopodium) mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
A common composite herb (Achillea Millefolium) with white flowers and finely dissected leaves; yarrow.
A European perennial succulent herb (Cotyledon umbilicus), having round, peltate leaves with a central depression; -- also called pennywort, and kidneywort.
A genus of American herbs, having showy red, white, or purple flowers.
A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.
Same as Bee glue, under Bee.
Same as Quitch grass.
Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil.
The grass-cloth plant (B/hmeria nivea); also, its fiber, which is very fine and exceedingly strong; -- called also China grass, and rhea. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.
A broad-leaved species of garlic (Allium ursinum), common in European gardens; -- called also buckram.
Any one of several species of northern sea ducks of the genus Oidemia.
Seneca root.
A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous.
Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off.
Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.
Alt. of Sumach
Any plant of the genus Drosera, low bog plants whose leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort.
A plant of the genus Hypericum (H. Androsoemum), from which a healing ointment is prepared in Spain; -- called also parkleaves.