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• “I followed the path beside ancient overgrown hedges, heavy with elder blossom and sheltering patches of lady's bedstraw and betony, down to the banks of the river Wear where tree planting began this spring in lower-lying fields.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Low Burnhall, Durham

• ““Bet it is just wintergreen, feverfew, and betony, mixed with something sweet—and now he will make a fortune,” Teddy said, reading the account in the Gazette.”

  Simon & Schuster: Exit the Actress

• “Wet-kneed, we walked by pastures filled with the white froth of meadowsweet and river-bank flora of lady's bedstraw, betony, devil's bit scabious, greater burnet and eyebright, kneeling several times to store memories of the scent of the last of the fragrant orchids.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Forest-in-Teesdale

• “Cushions of thrift and bladder campion on old walls have faded, but purple spikes of betony and the white of yarrow and sea carrot enliven vegetation along the coastal path.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Cornwall

• “I thought it very unlikely, for instance, that bloodwort would be effective in making warts grow on a rival's nose, and I strongly doubted whether wood betony was useful in transforming toads into pigeons.”

  Fictionaut: Sick Cycle Carousel

• “You were saying yesterday to Colum that ye needed betony and some odd bits of herbs?”

  Fictionaut: Sick Cycle Carousel

• “Mrs. Fitz pointed out foxglove, purslane, and betony, along with a few I did not recognize.”

  Fictionaut: Sick Cycle Carousel

• “A garland of betony worn at night was a specific against phantasma or delusions and a head poultice of crushed teasel a spiky plant with hooked spines would relieve the symptoms of the frenzy.20 Another popular belief was that a rosted Mous, eaten, doth heale Franticke persons.21”

  Simon & Schuster: Bedlam

• “Antonius Musa, that renowned physician to Caesar Augustus, in his book which he writ of the virtues of betony, cap.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

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