The freshgroundsel was brought in while Jacynth was pouring out the tea.
In the cottage gardens and here and there along the roadside the groundsel (Senecio vulgaris) is flourishing abundantly.
Every year thousands of ragweed and groundsel seeds must be blown on to the shale-heap, but they never manage to grow there.
These slopes of shale are easily heated by the sun, and at the same time radiate the heat rapidly away, so that the Viscid Groundsel must have a very hard time of it.
All over the sides of the heap there will be hundreds of a rare groundsel (Senecio viscosus), which is not really a native, and never occurs except on such places.
Bearding the Northwold bench with a groundsel plume and a knitting-needle: 'With a needle for a sword, and a thimble for a hat, Wilt thou fight a traverse with the Castle cat?
Mary, feeling almost as if he were beyond the pale of reason, as she saw him adjusting a plant of groundsel in his cap.
There's no lack of it at the Terrace; but it is an old habit, and there always was an illusion that Ormersfield groundsel is a superior article.
Many weeds, groundsel especially, will now be coming into flower, and if allowed to seed will make enormous work later on.
It is very common on the wild species of Groundsel in England, being especially frequent and virulent on the Ragwort Groundsel, =Senecio Jacobea=, from August to October.
A decoction of Groundsel serves as a famous application for healing chapped hands.
Au old herbal prescribes against toothache to "dig up Groundsel with a tool that hath no iron in it, and touch the tooth five times with the plant, then spit thrice after each touch, and the cure will be complete.
With venerable locks the Groundsel grows; Hard care more quick than years white head-gear shows.
Not being attractive to insects or visited by them theGroundsel is fertilized by the wind.
Common Groundsel is so well known throughout Great Britain, that it needs scarcely any description.
In the hands of Simplers the Groundsel formerly held high rank as a herb of power.
It is a pretty sight to see them, when they are well behaved; and should one notice the boys and girls, many of them would be found hunting under the hawthorn hedge-rows for chick-weed and groundsel to be taken home for the pet birds.
Perhaps it is on this account that the groundsel and chick-weed sellers are all very poor, and the raggedness of some is pitiable in the extreme, as the picture shows.
Besides the groundsel and the chick-weed, he has small pieces of turf for sale, of which larks are very fond.
If you see some dandelions in the lawn, or groundsel among the flowers or vegetables in the garden beds, you say, "Those weeds must be pulled up.
You call the Dandelion and the Groundsel weeds, but they have flowers all the same; the Dandelion is perhaps one of the most lovely yellow flowers that we have.
A bunch of Groundsel worn on the bare bosom was formerly reputed to be an efficacious charm against the ague.
Common Groundsel has the power of softening water if it be poured while boiling on the plant.
A cure is probable, says Pliny, provided the mutilated and replanted Groundsel should thrive: if otherwise, the tooth will ache more than ever.
A root must be pulled up, and a portion of it cut off with a sharp razor; then the Groundsel must be immediately replanted, and the excised portion applied three or four times to the ailing tooth.
In Cornwall, if Groundsel is to be used as an emetic, they strip it upwards; if for a cathartic, downwards.
Smith informs us[4] that it also feeds on the common groundsel (S.
The groundsel tree, Baccharis halimifolia, a native of the North American sea-coast from Massachusetts southward, is a Composite shrub, attaining 6 to 12 ft.
The groundsel tree has been cultivated in British gardens since 1683.
The Groundsel flowers grow in small heads of two or three together at the end of short stalks which branch at intervals from top to bottom of the stem.
The stem of the Groundsel is soft and juicy, and it has a good many hairs upon it.
Common groundsel is also a case of the same kind; but here the degradation has not gone nearly so far.
I venture to conjecture, therefore, that groundsel has been embarked for a shorter time upon its downward course.
By family the groundsel is a daisy; but it has acquired the strange and somewhat abnormal habit of self-fertilisation, which in all probability will ultimately lead to its total extinction.
If we could meet prophetically with a groundsel of some remote future century, I have little doubt we should find its bell-shaped petals as completely degraded as those of the plantain in our own day.
The second species is the Common Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris), which may be seen in bloom throughout the year.
It is not clear whether Tussilago orgroundsel (Senecio vulgaris) is meant; or whether he was not sure which of the two plants becomes slimy when wetted.
You would call groundsel a weed in the garden of a man who does not keep a canary, but not a weed in the garden of a man who does?
Then shall I miss nothing of their glory, and when visitors come I can impress them with my stories of the wonderful show of groundsel which we had last year.
This would take the heart out of anything which was trying to flower there, and it is only natural that, with the exception of the three groundsel beds, the garden is now a wilderness.
I shall be away all day, and I want to be at home in good time in the evening, for I mean to attack that crop of groundsel between the sweet-pea hedges.
The Rector went out to discover, and met his daughter looking decidedly earthy, and seemingly much exhausted by the weight of a basketful of groundsel plants.
In other words, the fungus growing in the cortex of the pine, and that parasitic on the leaves of the groundsel and its allies, are one and the same: it spends part of its life on the tree and the other part on the herb.
It may be added that it is known that the fungus can go on being reproduced by the uredospores on the groundsel plants which live through the winter.
The two birds were very good friends, excepting when an unusually nice bit of groundsel or plantain excited a quarrel between them; then they scolded, fluttered, and pecked at each other in a very savage manner.
So we again became immoveable, and there was the brown stranger peeping at Goldie through the bars, perhaps wishing to partake of the seed and sugar, and fresh groundselthat Goldie had been enjoying.
His turf dried up, his groundsel withered, and no more could be got.
A poor old woman was picking groundsel with a melancholy persistence, and the torn umbrella which wavered above her bent form made her look like a scarecrow.
The canary-shop was found, and two canaries and a bird-cage were bought, together with packets of seed and a bird's bath and a pennyworth of groundsel and plantains.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "groundsel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: flower; sill; threshold
