spice-bush

He knew where to find the aromatic spice-bush to cool the burning of fever, and where in the spring grew the tenderest willow twigs whose bark went into cures for rheumatism.

Followers of the Trail Zoe Meyer

Isabel followed close, helping herself up the steep rocks, now by catching hold of a spice-bush and shaking off all its ripe golden blossoms; now drawing down the loops of a grape-vine and swinging forward on it, encouraged in each new effort by the hearty commendations of her new friend.

The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

The former is represented by the sassafras and spice-bush, common throughout the eastern United States.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

If, after that, they get a cold wetting, the wild mother, it is said, will feed the buds of the spice-bush to her brood, as our grandmothers used to administer mint tea to us.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

The red berries of the dogwood and spice-bush and other shrubs shine in the sun like rubies and coral.

Winter Sunshine John Burroughs 1879

It had been their custom on each succeeding spring to go, if the anniversary ware pleasant, to sit again at evening on the door-step with the sweetness of the straggling spice-bush upon it.

Life at High Tide Henry Mills Alden 1877