It certainly resembles a Scabious in general appearance (see Fig.
They are all extraordinarily sweet,' said Siegmund to the full-mouthed scabious and the awkward, downcast ragwort.
The cliff was a tangle of flowers above and below, with poppies at the lip being blown out like red flame, and scabious leaning inquisitively to look down, and pink and white rest-harrow everywhere, very pretty.
The Sweet Scabious has long and deservedly held a place as an ornamental plant in our gardens, the flowers are well adapted for nosegays, have a sweet musky smell, and are produced in great profusion from June to October.
When he passed under the window she threw him a scabious bound up with forget-me-nots.
I undertake that, if rest-harrow andscabious and corn-cockle invade the garden, I shall never use a hoe on them.
Who is there who, coming on the blue scabious on a hill near the sea, is not conscious of the gross failure of the human race in never having found anything but this name out of a dustbin for one of the most charming of flowers?
Honeysuckle tangled the hedge-tops; the wild roses were out below; and in the ditches the paler scabious was of the colour of the sky, the deeper that of the mountains towards which the old horse lazily clop-clopped.
The mountains drew nearer, and other pale colours began to show through the scabious blue.
The Corn Scabiousdiffers little from the first, but that it is greater in all respects, and the flowers more inclining to purple, and the root creeps under the upper crust of the earth, and runs not deep into the ground as the first doth.
There is another sort of Field Scabious different in nothing from the former, but only it is smaller in all respects.
Here are the scabious begging for a little water, the deadly spurge hiding its green blossoms, the blue campanula silently shaking its useless bells.
The pale scabious has lengthened its stalks, from which spring tufts like mauve heliotrope.
It flies from May to August, and the larva feeds on the small scabious (Scabiosa columbaria).
Galium verum), and the fieldscabious (Scabiosa arvensis), during the month of July.
Illustration] When she complained of not being well, the sheep's-scabious and the bell-flower said that it was just the same with them.
The plantain andscabious in like manner I knew to be a plantain and scabious by their general look.
The country air was still sweet between the hazel hedgerows, although the grass was drouthy and the scabious blooms were already grey with dust.
The knapweed was stunted and the scabious blooms drooped towards the dusty pasture.
When the wind blew, ripples raced over the bending grasses, and from their midst shone out mauve scabious and flashed occasional poppies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scabious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: flaky; flocculent; scabby; scabrous; scaly; scurfy
