Many authors have observed, that, along with the tonic and stomachic qualities of a bitter, Centaury frequently proves cathartic; but it is possible that this seldom happens, unless it be taken in very large doses.
Under the tufts of the centaury on which the Golden Cryptocephalus browses lies a black bed of the miscellaneous refuse of the plant.
For the first two I provide sprigs of ilex; for the third, the heads of a centaury (Centaurea aspera), which is the favourite plant of this living gem.
Though growing commonly in dry pastures, in woods, and on chalky cliffs, yet the Centaury cannot be reared in a garden.
Centaury has become popularly reduced in Worcestershire to Centre of the Sun.
Plants have always been a favourite means of testing the faith of lovers; and the Centaury or Bluet of the cornfields was the flower selected by Margaret as the floral oracle from which to learn the truth respecting Faust.
In Lucan's 'Pharsalia,' the Centaury is one of the plants named as being burned with the object of driving away serpents.
They are either not at all, or very scarce in England, our centaury is the small centaury.
Use of pennyroyal, wormwood, centaury sod, which alone hath cured many.
From the flowering tops of common or lesser centaury (Erythaea centaurium).
Dried tops of lesser centaury and wormwood, and leaves of germander, of each 3 dr.
The flowering cymes of the common centaury are very frequently employed as a substitute for the medicinal gentian, so well known as a valuable tonic.
What see you in the little centaury which you hold in your hand?
It is called the commonCentaury (Erythræa centaurium).
The leaves of germander, and dried tops of lesser centaury and wormwood, equal parts.
She scrapes the cobwebby stalk of the yellow-flowered centaury and gathers a ball of wadding which she carries off proudly in the tips of her mandibles.
Take equal parts of the Roots of Centaury and the White Vine, a pint of Cow's Milk, and the crumb of a Wheaten Loaf; distil in a glass alembic.
The centaurystill figures largely in rustic medicine and in the prescriptions of the herbalists; we have seen the country agents of these latter with armfuls of centaury as large as they could carry.
In some parts of England the rustics corrupt centauryinto sanctuary, and the Germans call it the tausend-gulden-kraut.
The centaury is said to be a good and cheap substitute for the medicinal gentian, and, as a hair-dye, was for a long time held in repute for the production of a rich golden yellow tint.
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