We will leave to Aelian his herb hanea and to Sterne the purslane and cucumber which indicate too plainly his antiphlogistic purpose.
In similar situations we meet with two species of Sea Purslane (Obione), in which the flowers are unisexual, both male and female flowers being on the same plant.
The other species referred to--the Stalked Sea Purslane (O.
The purslane tree of South Africa, -- said to be the favorite food of elephants.
The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts.
Purslane is one of the kitchen garden plants most widely diffused throughout the old world from the earliest times.
In the United States purslane was believed to be of foreign origin (Asa Gray, Fl.
Purslane must be sowne in February or March, in a new Moone.
Purslane (Portulaca), strewn about a bed, used in olden times to be considered a sure protection against evil spirits.
In the liquid are placed some stalks of the common chickweed or purslane (Cerastium vulgatum) which, from the appearance of its red fleshy stalks, is supposed to have some connection with worms.
We can have purslaneany day," they said, "and now we will eat sweet peas.
In among the sweet peas were many little tufts of purslane, and purslane is very good to eat, as anybody knows who has tried it.
The Pyxis= is a pod which opens by a circular horizontal line, the upper part forming a lid, as in Purslane (Fig.
This is especially important late in the season in case of all pigweeds, purslane and others where the flowers are very small and are liable to be overlooked and the seeds ripen before their presence is suspected.
I confess the sight of a dense carpet of purslane instead of a crop of turnips, almost staggered me as to the correctness of my theory that the number of seeds in the ground, yet to vegetate, must somewhere have a limit.
It was singular, too, that we had noticed no purslane growing on that particular spot previous to the application of this rapidly-acting fertilizer.
After allowing the purslane to grow two weeks, Dick cut it off with his horse-weeder, raked it up, and carried it to the pigs, who consumed it with avidity.
Either the purslane had appropriated the whole energy of the guano, or the sowing was too late in the season.
On a piece of ground which had been sowed with turnips, on which guano had previously been sprinkled during a gentle rain, there sprang up the most marvellous growth of purslane that ever met one’s eyes.
The smooth firm surface of the salty ground of the Melleha, with bushes of purslane and Caucalis on either side, is a welcome change to both man and beast after so much laborious marching through the bare sand.
Some are better in combinations, such as milkweed and narrow dock, narrow dock and pigweed, milkweed and purslane and purslane and beet tops.
Defn: The purslane tree of South Africa, -- said to be the favorite food of elephants.
Purslane tree, a South African shrub (Portulacaria Afra) with many small opposite fleshy obovate leaves.
A good sample of our native purslane is the claytonia, or spring beauty, a shy, delicate plant that opens its rose-colored flowers in the moist, sunny places in the woods or along their borders so early in the season.
If I uncover the earth in any of my fields, ragweed and pigweed spring up; if these are destroyed, harvest grass, or quack grass, or purslane appears.
To him the garden was a battlefield, a contest with purslane and he hated to be worsted.
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