10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAY BLOBS»
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1
Complete Poems by Lawrence
I can smell the bog-end, gorgeous in its breathless Dazzle of may-blobs, where
the marigold glare overcast you With fire on your cheeks and your brow and your
chin as you dipped Your face in the marigold bunch, to touch and contrast you, ...
2
Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture
... 53 Cactus Grandiflora (prickly pear cactus), 253 Calamariae, 35 Calcutta
Botanic Garden, 180-81, 195, 198, 208-9 Caleandra baueri, 259 Caltha palustris
(horse-blobs, marsh marigold, kingcup, May blobs), 49, 148 Camalata, 174
Campbell ...
3
Herbal Simples Approved For Modern Uses of Cure
"Christ's Eyes," "Bull's Eyes," "May Blobs," "Drunkards," "Water Caltrops," and wild
"Batchelor's Buttons." A tincture is made (H.) from the whole plant when in flower,
and may be given with success for that form of bloodlessness with great ...
4
RSPB The Great British Wildlife Hunt
This much-loved plant, once rather commonerthan it is today, accumulated a
number oflocal names: Kingcup is often used, but how about 'May blobs'! WHEN
TO GO Flowers from March to June, sometimes later. WHERE TO G0 The banks ...
... freely from May to August, and is a native almost throughout the whole of
Europe, as well as of Western Asia. and North America, in marshy meadows and
about the margins of ponds, rivers, and brooks One of its rustic names is May-
Blobs.
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Flora of the British Isles
Sm.) DC, 176 incana (L.) R.Br., 175 oxyceras DC, 176 sinuata (L.) R.Br., 176
tricuspidata (L.) R.Br., 176 tristis (L.) R.Br., 176 May Blobs, 57 May Lily, 968
Mayweed Rayless, 854 Scentless, 853 Stinking, 849 Meadow-grass, 1140
Meadow Rue, ...
A.R. Clapham, E.F. Warburg, T.G. Tutin, 1965
An often-quoted example of the multiplicity of vernacular names is that of Caltha
palustris, for which, in addition to marsh marigold, kingcup and May blobs, there
are 90 other local British names (one being dandelion), as well as over 140 ...
8
D.H. Lawrence, the Poet who was Not Wrong
Substance is the master of shadow: But how splendid it is to be substance, here!
My shadow is neither here nor there; but I, I am royally here! I am here! I am here!
screams the peewit; the may-blobs burst out in a laugh as they hear! Here! flick ...
They are also known as " Bublicans," " Meadowbrights," "Crazies," "Christ's Eyes,
" "Bull's Eyes," "May Blobs," "Drunkards," "Water Caltrops," and wild " Batchelor's
Buttons." A tincture is made (H.) from the whole plant when in flower, and may ...
10
Field Guide to Wildflowers of Nebraska and the Great Plains: ...
Calthapalustris other common names Cowslip, kingcup, midland adder's tongue,
Mayflower, May blobs, pollyblobs, water bubbles. family Buttercup (
Ranunculaceae). flower April and May. distribution Scattered locations in north-
central and ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAY BLOBS»
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May blobs is used in the context of the following news items.
Pole dancing - not as you May know it
Some older county children may remember collecting May blobs – marsh marigold – to take to school, along with May blossom (hawthorn), ... «Leicester Mercury, May 15»
