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picris echioides Widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States.
Perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers.
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Hydrochloric acid, whether dilute or concentrated, is without action on alkanet violet.
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Among them are aniline violet, iodine violet, madder, alkanet, orchil and logwood.
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Both the above articles are sold either white or colored with alkanet root.
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The first group comprises madder, cochineal, orchil, alkanet, and murexide.
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A little alkanet to color if you wish.
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Blue-weed, or viper's bugloss; travels of; description of.
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The bugloss belongs to what may be called beautiful weeds, despite its rough and bristly stalk.
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Non-fragrant flowers that yield honey are those of the raspberry, clematis, sumac, white oak, bugloss, ailanthus, goldenrod, aster, fleabane.
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One of these includes the forget-me-nots, the borage, the alkanet, and the viper's bugloss, which keep up this blue as a family heirloom.
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Eat sparingly, and drink only barley water or clarified whey, and eat chickens and chicken broth, boiled with endive, succory, sorrel, bugloss and mallows.
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The angle of a field by the woods on the eastern side of the heath, the entire corner, is blue in July with viper's bugloss.
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Viper's bugloss, which grows so freely by the heath, was so called because anciently it was thought to yield an antidote to the adder's venom.
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Here were the thorn-apple, chenopodium, sow-thistle, wild mustard, redweed, viper's bugloss, and others, both native and introduced, in dense thickets five or six feet high.
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In Spring and Summer you use Cersevil, Oseille, Borage, Bugloss, Pourpier, Lettice, Chicoree and Cowcombers quartered, etc.
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If you put in these herbs following, it will be far better; Sanicle, Bugloss, Avens, and Ladies-mantle, of each one handful.