"Pellitory" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Bathe Medicinable: —253 (2): "YARDEHOK Mallow, some species. They are all more or less mucilaginous and emollient. If Yarde Virga; then it is Marshmallow, or Malva Sylvestris; if yarde erde, earth; then the rotundifolia. —254 (3): PARITORY is Pellitory of the wall, parietaria. Wall pellitory abounds in nitrate of potass. There are two other pellitories: 'P. of Spain'—this is Pyrethrum, which the Spanish corrupted into pelitre, and we corrupted pelitre ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various
... prettiest sort, and it extends along the stone wall separating the dooryard from the garden. Some one who has seen these vine-fringed walls in Barbizon describes them as gay with "purple orris, stonecrop, and pellitory." ...
— Jean Francois Millet • Estelle M. Hurll
... seemed to me a very difficult thing. I tried, however, taking botany as my guide; it suggested to me, as substitutes for the mulberry, the members of closely-related families: the elm, the nettle-tree, the nettle, the pellitory. Their nascent leaves, chopped small, were offered to the Silk-worms. Other and far less logical attempts were made, in accordance with the inspiration of the individuals. Nothing came of them. To the last specimen, the new-born Silk-worms died of hunger. My renown ...
— More Hunting Wasps • J. Henri Fabre |
