10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ADDER'S-MEAT»
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1
The English dialect dictionary
The same name is applied to other red berries . . . regarded, whether correctly or
otherwise, as being poisonous ; as lorexamplcthefruitof Tnmatscomnmm's. [
515mm, Fern,eommonly known as Adder's meat, and accordingly feared and
avoided ...
2
Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft
Wiccan Name Common Name Latin Name Adder's mouth Stitch wort Stellaria
media Adder's meat Microstylis ophioglossiodes Adder's tongue Dogstooth violet
Erythronium Americanum Ass's ear Comfrey Symphytum officinale Bear's ear ...
3
Flora of the British Isles
... 64 Actinocarpus Damasonium R.Br., 934 Adder's Meat, 243 Adder's Tongue,
43 Adiantum L., 17 capillus-veneris L., 17 Adonis L., 83 annua L., 83 autumnalis
L., 83 Adoxa L., 792 moschatellina L., 792 Adoxaceae, 792 Aegopodium L., 520
...
A.R. Clapham, E.F. Warburg, T.G. Tutin, 1965
4
A Guide to Species Irises: Their Identification and Cultivation
In Devon its seeds are called Adder's Meat or Adder's Berries, being regarded as
poisonous. /. pseudacorus has a string of aliases: False Acorus, Segg, Cegg,
Jacob's Sword, Flaggon, Mecklin, Myrtle Flower, Myrtle Grass, Myrtle Root,
Yellow ...
British Iris Society. Species Group, 1997
5
International Poisonous Plants Checklist: An Evidence-Based ...
Adam-and-Eve –see– Arum maculatum L. addad –see– Chamaeleon gummifera
(L.) Cass. addar –see– Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers. adder's-meat –see– Arum
maculatum L. adder's-root –see– Arum maculatum L. adelfa –see– Nerium ...
6
Celtic Plant Magic: A Workbook for Alchemical Sex Rituals
Cow parsley, for example, has the common country names of adder's meat,
devil's meat, and bad man's oatmeal because it is easily mistaken for hemlock
and fool's parsley, both of which are deadly poisonous. Of course, when
considering ...
7
Herbal Simples Approved For Modern Uses of Cure
The brilliant scarlet coral-like berries which are found set closely about the erect
spike of the arum in the autumn [35] are known to country lads as adder's meat--a
name corrupted from the Anglo-Saxon _attor_, "poison," as originally applied to ...
Adder's-meat, i. 99. estivation, the state of flowers in bud. Agrimony, i. 193.
Agrimony, Hemp, i. 355. Aider, ii. 183. Alexanders, i. 250. Alkanet, ii. 46, 54.
Allseed, i. 229. Almond Group, i. 171. alternate, i. iv. Amaryllis Tribe, ii. 209.
Andromeda, ii.
Charles Alexander Johns, 1853
... followmg characters — Sepals fn e , petals two cleft , stamens ten , styles three
, capsule opening by- slx \ alt es 86$ eral species are indigenous to (Treat Bntaln
b Holostea, the Greater Stitchwmt, called also Satin flower and Adder's meat, ...
10
The Poems of A. C. Swinburne
... to eat, Red rose eaves wi 1 never make 7 wine ? ” " Fen-water and adder's
meat, The ways are sair fra" the Till to the Tyne.” “On what will ye get my son to
wear, Red. POEMS AND BALLADS52I Mayanet ThedloodySon The Sea-
Swallows.
