10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GREAT PLANTAIN»
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1
Dictionary of Plant Lore
Grape Vine 173 Great Plantain many names for the plant. Were bishops
particularly prone to gout? Probably so, but the real reason for the names is likely
to be the fact that this plant is so often found near ecclesiastical ruins; it was said
that ...
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The British Garden: A Descriptive Catalogue of Hardy Plants, ...
Great Plantain, 0r Way-bread. Leaves eggfhaped, fmooth, feven-nerv'd; fcape
columnar; fpike with florets tiled. Flowers from May to July. 2;. Native of Britain.
Var. a vulgaris. Broad-leaned Great Plantain. B Be/bm Plantain. Panicle fcatter'd.
Lady Charlotte Murray, 1808
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The Trotula: An English Translation of the Medieval ...
Let her drink, therefore, water in which are cooked the bark of pomegranate,
pomegranate skin, roses, oak apples, nutmeg, oak leaves, eglantine, bramble,
agrimony, and great plantain. All these mixed together or individually help. After
eating ...
4
An introduction to physic and surgery
... Wood Spurge, rough fruited Spurge, knotty-rooted Spurge, broad-leaved
Spurge, long leaved Corn-spurge, dwarf Spurge, Sun-spurge, Petty Spurge,
small purple Sea-spurge, great' Plantain or Waybread, hoary Plantain or Lamb's-
tongue, ...
5
Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, ...
The root of the great plantain, or way-bread, when old, is the thickness of the
thumb, præmorse or stumped, laying strong hold of the earth by its fibres, which
strike deeply, and are whitish. Leaves petioled, seven-ribbed, or sometimes ...
6
Encyclopaedia Londinensis
The root of the great plantain, or way-bread, when old, is the thickness of the
thumb, praemorse or stumped, laying strong hold of the earth by its fibres, which
strike deeply, and are Whitish. Leaves petioled,sevensrib-bed, or sometimes ...
7
The English Cyclopaedia: Geography
In structure, Plantago possesses the rare peculiarity of having the cavity of its
simple carpel divided into two by a vertical additional plate. [PLANTAOO.] Great
Plantain (flantago major). 1, a flower ; 1, a corolla cat open ; 3, a seed-vessel,
with ...
8
Natural History: Or, Second Division of "The English ...
P. major, Great Plantain, has broadly ovate leaves on a long channelled stalk ;
terete scapes ; an elongated spike ; ovate-obtuse keeled bracts; the sepals with a
prominent dorsal nerve; the capsules sat. nisi. DIV. VOL. IV. 2-celled, each cell ...
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The Cyclopædia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, ...
7 - - PLANTAGO, Mrjoiy-the great plantain. This affords more seeds than the
former, and is perennial. The root when old is the thickness of the thumb,
prmmorse or stumped, laying strong hold of the earth byits sibres, which strike
deeply, and ...
10
A General View of the Writings of Linnaeus
Richard Pulteney, Carl Troilius. No. 62. Astonishing growth of the Great Plantain (
Plantago major). The spikes 4 or 5 feet high. In other situations, the whole plant
not 1 inch. . No. 80. The wretched inhabitants sometimes obliged to make bread ...
Richard Pulteney, Carl Troilius, 1805
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It came with two slices of fried plantain on top that were too fibrous and lacked that great plantain flavor that normally comes from frying them. «Madison.com, Jan 15»
